Erasmus scheme’s £100million replacement: Government pledges to ‘expand opportunities to study abroad’ after program was scrapped as part of Brexit deal Turing scheme will provide funding for around 35,000 students to go abroad Decision to end involvement in the Erasmus scheme has proved controversial Nicola Sturgeon described the decision to leave Erasmus as ‘cultural vandalism’ … Read more
The Holiday Guru is always on hand to answer your questions. This week he replies to travellers whose plans have been fogged up by the tiers and the Brexit trade deal. Q. How do I know which countries are banning British visitors? I am due to visit St Lucia in January. John Desmond, Salisbury, Wilts. … Read more
The New Joint Partnership Council that will settle UK-EU trade disputes will be co-chaired by a UK minister and an EU representative. The mysterious mediation body will be set up on January 1 to act as a point of call for any issues between Britain and EU member states. A 1,255-page document has now shed … Read more
A Tory MP has demanded more details on what the Brexit trade deal means for Northern Ireland with the country still in the single market and subject to EU rules. John Redwood urged Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove to flesh out further details on the agreement relating to the province this morning. Britain today published the … Read more
Boris Johnson and the European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen have agreed that a ‘firm decision’ about the future of Brexit negotiations should be made by Sunday. As the clock ticks towards the deadline for agreement on a trade deal, here is a look at the key moments in the saga: January 23, 2013 … Read more
Britain is the world’s fifth-largest economy again after overtaking India despite being in the grip of deep recession during coronavirus pandemic League table produced by Centre for Economic and Business Research (CEBR) UK is set to push further ahead of seventh-placed France in decade after Brexit Climb back up league table is despite fall in GDP … Read more
Wonder of wonders, the deal is done! After all the squabbling and shouting — and despite the predictions of No Deal disaster — Boris Johnson has his trade agreement with the European Union, and we can get on with our lives. What a long, arduous, unedifying journey it has been, with so many twists and … Read more
STEPHEN DAISLEY: Splitting up the Union would be even harder than quitting the EU By Stephen Daisley For The Daily Mail Published: 00:29 GMT, 26 December 2020 | Updated: 00:29 GMT, 26 December 2020 The Scots are so sceptical of Boris Johnson that, whatever he does, the question is not whether he will damage the … Read more
Give it a few years and I predict that Britons will look back on this unholy Brexit affair and credit two unlikely factors with saving the day: The pandemic… and the ghastly Germans. While the EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier and his compatriot, the French president Emmanuel Macron, were all for giving you Brits a … Read more
Nigel Farage hails Boris as ‘the man who finished the job’ as PM begins lobbying hardline Brexiteers before his deal heads for the Commons Boris Johnson spoke to senior members of the European Research Group on Christmas Eve in a bid to persuade them to back the Brexit agreement Nigel Farage hailed the agreement, declaring … Read more