Supply chain disruption "is going to get worse," he tells @ifgevents, with Xmas & new Brexit checks coming down the line
Just in time supply chains as the UK has known them are "over" and food shortages will now be "permanent"
The Food & Drink Federation's Ian Wright says he's been led to believe the government might announce a further delay to EU import checks as soon as this afternoon...
Filling in for the ace @Alain_Tolhurst on this week’s Saturday read...
I interviewed DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson, who insisted he was not scared about the next Assembly election but warned it’d be “critical” for unionism. “It’s an election we must win.” politicshome.com/news/article/j…
Donaldson, who replaced Edwin Poots last month, told me the DUP would not consider supporting the UK government's move to implement Irish language legislation until/unless it delivered "meaningful" changes to the Northern Ireland Protocol
With the DUP languishing in recent polls, Donaldson said the party must be more "inclusive" and a "broad umbrella under which unionists can shelter," to get back on track
Peter Hain (Northern Ireland Secretary 05-07): “Compared with the attention Blair, Major and Brown gave to Northern Ireland, it has been treated with casual indifference, Frankly, I find it really upsetting”
"The government has allowed this to degenerate to the most serious crisis for a quarter of a century," Hain told PoliticsHome
He singled out “respected” Julian Smith, who Johnson sacked as Northern Ireland Secretary when he became PM, as an exception politicshome.com/news/article/n…