🚨"UK failure to create post-Brexit chemical regulations risks ‘irreparable damage". New important but grim #brexitreality story by @pmdfoster on the (failed) attempts by UKG to create an affordable post-Brexit regulatory regime for the chem industry. 🧵 ft.com/content/2d58ee…
1) "After Brexit, the UK quit the EU’s Reach chemical management system but has delayed the introduction of its own arrangements after a government impact assessment discovered it would cost the industry a [staggering] £2bn to duplicate the safety data already held in Brussels."
2) "However, attempts to broker a deal with industry to reduce the cost of re-registering 22,400 chemicals with a copycat UK “Reach” system run by the government’s Health and Safety Executive are failing to bear fruit".
3) "The industry argues it is needlessly expensive to duplicate registrations where chemicals have already passed safety tests in the EU but for legal and intellectual property reasons, the underlying data for legal for those registrations is not available to the UK regulator. "
4) "However, conservation and environmental groups have said that unless the UK regulator is in full possession of the data, it cannot regulate effectively." This year the UKG announced a three-year extension to deadlines for completing full UK Reach registrations but...
5) Industry and Chemical Industry Association tells that "deadline extensions were helpful they reflected the “very limited progress” in negotiations over UK Reach" and said they need " tangible progress . . . and we need it fast." /ends h/t @brexit_sham@BestForBritain
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🚨🚨"Why Starmer should now play prosecutor on Brexit: A proper audit of the impact of leaving the EU would deliver political and economic benefits to incoming Labour ministers". Characteristically strong column by @robertshrimsley . Key points in brief 🧵 ft.com/content/b82886…
There are good political and economic reasons for commissioning a thorough official review of the impact of Brexit. The first and simplest is that it has not been done. /2
There has been no comprehensive government study to examine the consequences, sector by sector and region by region. Nor has there been a cost-benefit analysis on the impact of regulatory divergence on various sectors. /3
🚨🚨 "Keir Starmer to signal Britain is ‘back’ on the world stage." Promising much-needed new direction/reset of UK foreign policy as per @FT report by @LOS_Fisher , @PickardJE & @pmdfoster . Short 🧵with key elements: ft.com/content/ab8842…
" Sir Keir Starmer will use his first weeks in power to signal that Britain is “back” as a leading global player, as Labour prioritises three foreign policy resets — with Europe, the “global south” and on climate change". /2
The Labour leader will be thrust on to the world stage within days of Thursday’s general election if he becomes UK PM as expected, with @NATO 75th anniversary summit in Washington starting on July 9. /3
🚨🚨Excellent and nuanced critical overview by @pmdfoster & @AndyBounds of @UKLabour 's pledge to enhance the trading relationship with the 🇪🇺 well-informed by much needed expert insights. Short #BrexitReality 🧵with key points ft.com/content/b8b166…
Labour has pledged to sign a vet agreement with the EU. A deal could reduce the amount of red tape at the border for plant and animal products, but the scale of any benefits would depend on how ambitious the UK wanted to be. /2
A “New Zealand-style” deal would only partly reduce checks & paperwork on goods entering the EU. Meanwhile, a high-alignment “Swiss-style” deal could remove almost all cumbersome red tape but would require the UK to accept it would automatically follow EU law. /3
1) The package includes restrictive measures on additional 116 individuals and entities responsible for actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine, as well as the following sectoral measures:
2) To ensure that EU facilities are not used to tranship 🇷🇺 LNG to 3rd countries & thereby reduce the significant revenues that 🇷🇺 derives from LNG sale & transport, the EU will forbid reloading services of 🇷🇺 LNG in EU territory for transshipment operations to third countries.
🚨🚨"Starmer’s Brexit Silence Risks Backfiring If He Gains Power". Labour election campaign designed to keep Leave voters onside but red lines on EU ties will hinder pledge to grow UK economy. #brexitreality story via @EllenAMilligan @BloombergUK 🧵 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
KS won’t have long to wait for a chance to reset UK’s ties with the EU. If his Labour Party wins the GE on July 4, he’ll be welcoming dozens of fellow leaders including Emmanuel Macron, Olaf Scholz & Giorgia Meloni for talks at Winston Churchill’s former home just 2 weeks later.
People close to Starmer, who polls suggest is a shoo-in to replace Rishi Sunak as prime minister, expect him to use the European Political Community summit to begin establishing a “new geopolitical partnership” with the UK’s closest and biggest trading partner. /3
🚨🚨 Eight years and one day ago....Britain vote to leave the European Union. Some reflections on #brexit from an external European perspective. 🧵
As a strong pro-European and EU law academic I was personally insulted by the vote which also came as a shock (I was in Birmingham for an EU law conference when the ref vote took place) as naively I had assumed it could never happen. /2
I was even more insulted by the disastrous Tory leadership, toxic politics and bickering (highlighted in the fall of Teresa May) which led the UK government to finally negotiate leaving the EU single market striking a deal which at best could be called feeble. /3