So @BorisJohnson will use #CPC21 speech to define 'levelling up'...but can it be more than a slogan? Can he change the social and economic geography of Britain?
If you fancy going beyond the bloviation, check this five-part series by brill @FT writers/1
@BorisJohnson@FT We look at four big areas, and interrogate if there is the money, the ambition and the courage to make a difference
- Net Zero
- Skills revolution
- Science Superpower
- Immigration reform
Each throws up a unique set of challenges, but each has real possibilities/2
@BorisJohnson@FT The question -- and the one that I found much more debated at #cpc21 fringes than the polices themselves -- is whether @BorisJohnson has the chops to deliver them in a joined up way. To govern strategically and not -- as @MichaelBarber9 calls it -- "government by spasm" /3
@BorisJohnson@FT@MichaelBarber9 The business bashing and failure to confront origins and solutions of the shortages crisis at this conference doesn't really bode that well, if we're honest, but the reality of an election might yet concentrate minds. To put some steel (if you can get any) beneath the froth. ENDS
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So @GeorgeFreemanMP is talking at #CPC21 event on #brexit and regulation. He wants “convergence” for existing industries so boardrooms won’t leave. And “divergence” for future industries…without asking why what works for one, wouldn’t work for the other?? /1
He says he backed remain because no-one in Life Sciences wanted to #brexit, but now sees deregulatory future “dynamic, agile” etc.
E-scooters data test bed is his example. U.K. sets standard and then export internationally…but to what standard? 🤯/2
He then lionised the Medicines and Medical devices regulator @MHRAgovuk and it’s boss June Raine for delivering #Covid_19 vaccine. Not mention of why cutting 20%-25% of MHRA jobs /3
“I don’t think there will be much risk at Christmas time,” member of @BorisJohnson administration tells @ft…but that’s the kind of complacency that has industry wondering if govt really gets how tangled up things are - globally and domestically. So… /1
So as Alan Williams of @daviesturner freight forwarders explains, #COVID19 totally scrambled the world supply chains by shutting down bits of the economy in different orders. The result is a nightmare of rising costs and congestion. /2
Look 👀 at those shipping rates… 14 times pre pandemic levels. And shipping times doubled. So big chance Christmas lights start arriving in January …lots of summer stock landed late. /3
@CER_Grant@hilarybennmp@lisanandy@JennyChapman So @lisanandy says not realistic that labour campaigns on rejoining customs union and single market...and @JennyChapman wants to rebuild the relationship 'bit by bit'...but doesn't want to engage with the 'ratchet' that leads to a 'Norway for Now' relationship./2
@FT It's easy to dismiss @BorisJohnson but do so at your peril...he's a political alchemist and opportunist, who wins 80 seat majorities when no-one thought that was possible.
But the first two years of his premiership have been sucked up by #Brexit and #Covid-19. But what now?/2
@FT@BorisJohnson Recall the dreadful "levelling up" speech last July that everyone trashed on left and right that, as one senior Tory tells me and @GeorgeWParker was delivered because “the PM just wanted to say something — anything — about levelling up” /3
My latest #brexit briefing…on the risks of doing away with EU law via @FT.
While everyone scoffed about pint pots and imperial measures last week, @DavidGHFrost was making a potentially big move that is worrying legal experts. Stay with me/1 on.ft.com/3EKQCsH
@FT@DavidGHFrost So what's this all about? Well, you'll remember that list of 'freedom' dividends that Frost announced as a follow up to the TIGGR report on deregulation...some trivial stuff, some more substantive bits, but easy fodder for the pro- #Brexit press /2
@FT@DavidGHFrost But Frost's statement to the Lords contained a potentially much more far-reaching and consequential strand that relates to so-called "retained" EU law...and that's the part that's got lawyers like @CSBarnard24@SirJJQC@GeorgePeretzQC twitching. /3
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School trips to Britain put at risk by EU passport rule change via @FT tl;dr…stopping EU kids using ID cards will help erode U.K. bond with EU warn travel groups. 😢
@FT This is one of those stories where the impact of #Brexit is not quantified in £s or euros...but in the gradual building up of barriers between the EU and the UK.
In this case, stopping use of EU ID cards for travel into UK...which will hit EU school trips /2
@FT It might not seem like a big deal, requiring everyone has a passport to enter UK, but in practice companies that organise school trips -- one of the cheapest and earlies forms of cultural exposure -- say it will hit them hard/3