Europe and Brexit report form City Hall, Jan 17
At the December Assembly Plenary, I raised the consequences of Brexit on London’s Life Sciences sector.
I also proposed a motion on Medcity.
I have prepared two more detailed Brexit briefings:
Brexit briefing: single market access, customs union or free trade agreement: what is the difference?
Brexit Briefing: High Tech, Life Sciences and Pharmaceuticals.
Sadiq Khan has unveiled his new panel of business leaders, investors and academics who will advise him on the risks, challenges and opportunities for London following the vote to leave the European Union. This new Brexit Expert Advisory Panel will provide on-call advice and guidance to the Mayor. It includes leaders from sectors including financial services, technology, science and the media. Members of the Board are not paid for their roles. Ranging across London’s key economic sectors, members of the panel include Sir George Iacobescu, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Canary Wharf Group, Sherry Coutu, Executive Chair of Scaleup Institute, and the former European Trade Commissioner Lord Mandelson. They will be joined by Baroness Vadera, chair of Santander UK, Xavier Rolet, chief executive of the London Stock Exchange Group, and Julia Onslow-Cole, Partner, Legal Markets Leader and Head of Global Immigration at PwC.
The London Chamber of Commerce & Industry published their Report, ‘Permits, Points And Visas’, which I followed up with my Brexit questions to the Mayor.
In a strongly-worded recent report Parliament’s influential Joint select Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) (which I chaired when I was an MP) highlighted the political uncertainty over the residential status of both EU citizens in the UK and the 1.2 million Britons believed to be living elsewhere within the European Union. Mass deportations of the estimated 2.9 million EU nationals living in the UK would be impractical and they should not be used as a “bargaining chip” in Brexit negotiations, the JCHR warned.
‘Brexit’ — the term most often used to describe the U.K.’s exit from the bloc — contains four sub-definitions in the briefing document, published by the House of Commons library.
You may also be interested in this article in the Guardian, with 20 reasons why Brexit will be even trickier than we thought.
Finally, I find this think tank website very useful for up to date developments on Brexit: you may also want to go on their email list. brexitfiles@politico.eu
