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Month: May 2018


Brexit News

Pro-EU activists backed by George Soros ‘£5.6MILLION ...

BayRadio | May 24, 2018 close
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A REMAIN campaign group backed by billionaire financier George Soros has launched a £5.6 million plan to block Brexit, leaked documents have revealed. Best for Britain will use an advertising blitz, social media, a speaking tour by leading Labour Remainers and local campaigning in its bid to stop the UK […]

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Stop Brexit blather and face reality on trade, says ex-EU ...

BayRadio | May 24, 2018 close
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Britain must face reality on post-Brexit trade rather than continue the “buccaneering blather” of hard Brexiters, the UK’s former chief EU diplomat Sir Ivan Rogers has said. Rogers, the former chief Brussels adviser to both David Cameron and Theresa May, took aim at the prime minister’s Brexit strategy in a speech on […]

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Ex-Vote Leave director Dominic Cummings warns of ‘train ...

BayRadio | May 24, 2018 close
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Brexit is destined to be a “train wreck” and Tory MPs should get rid of Theresa May to have any hope of staying in power, Dominic Cummings has said. The former Vote Leave director said the civil service had made “no real preparations” for leaving the EU as most officials […]

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UK wants £1bn back from EU if it is excluded from Galileo

BayRadio | May 24, 2018 close
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The UK wants the EU to repay £1bn if it is excluded from the Galileo satellite navigation system after Brexit. David Davis’s Brexit department is also warning the scheme could cost the EU an extra €1bn (£876m) without the UK’s continued involvement. The row could harm wider post-Brexit security co-operation, the […]

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Technology-based customs system ‘could cost £20bn’

BayRadio | May 24, 2018 close
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The post-Brexit customs system favoured by Boris Johnson and other leading Brexiteers could cost businesses up to £20bn a year, officials have suggested. The chief executive of HM Revenue and Customs told MPs firms would have to pay £32.50 for each customs declaration under the so-called “max fac” solution. Jon […]

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Prisoners on day release to plug workforce gaps after Britain ...

BayRadio | May 24, 2018 close
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Prisoners freed on day release will be used to plug gaps in the workforce left by departing EU migrants as part of an overhaul of rehabilitation policies announced today. Justice Secretary David Gauke said the inmates would fill vacancies in sectors such as construction, agriculture and catering as the labour […]

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UK set for parliamentary showdown on Brexit law ‘in ...

BayRadio | May 24, 2018 close
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The European Union (Withdrawal) Bill is central to the government’s Brexit plan, repealing the laws that made Britain an EU member and transposing existing EU law into British law. “I aim to bring back the very important Brexit legislation within weeks,” said Andrea Leadsom, leader of the House of Commons, […]

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Labour would be neutral in any border poll – Jeremy Corbyn

BayRadio | May 24, 2018 close
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Jeremy Corbyn has told the BBC that if he is prime minister the UK government would take a neutral position in any border poll campaign. He said he was not asking for or advocating a border poll, but would ensure the Good Friday Agreement is implemented “to the letter”. Mr […]

Spanish News

Catalonia postpones swearing in new regional government

BayRadio | May 24, 2018 close
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Catalonia’s new separatist president on Wednesday postponed the swearing in of his administration after Madrid rejected four regional minister who are in jail or exile over the region’s independence push. Catalan president Quim Torra, who took office last week, denounced in a statement the “blockage exercised by the Spanish government” against […]

Spanish News

Former Catalan police chief to be tried for sedition

BayRadio | May 24, 2018 close
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Josep Lluís Trapero and other ex-officials will sit in the dock over their role in the referendum and protests leading up to it The case against the former head of the Catalan police, Josep Lluís Trapero, is ready for trial. The ex-chief of the Mossos d’Esquadra, as the regional force is […]

Spanish News

Spain PM gets support from Basque party to pass 2018 budget

BayRadio | May 24, 2018 close
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After months of suspense, Spain’s government finally got the guarantee it needed that the 2018 budget would be approved after a Basque nationalist party said Wednesday it would vote in favour of the spending plan. The Basque Nationalist Party (PNV), whose five lawmakers are key for Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s […]

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Number of British people gaining German citizenship soars 1,100%...

BayRadio | May 23, 2018 close
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A record 7,493 British people gained German citizenship in 2017 – 12 times the figure of 622 in 2015, and a 162% rise on 2016 The number of Brits obtaining German passports has exploded in what officials are calling an “obvious” link to Brexit . A record 7,493 British people gained German […]