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U.K. Suffers Brexit Trade Setback Over Copy-and-Paste WTO Terms

October 29, 2018 office

Article from Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-25/u-k-suffers-brexit-trade-setback-over-copy-and-paste-wto-terms International Trade Secretary Liam Fox said his plan to quickly normalize the U.K.’s World Trade Organization commitments had failed, forcing the government to enter into what will likely be lengthy negotiations with other members on basic terms of trade after Brexit. It’s a significant blow to the U.K., which was proposing to replicate the European […]

Budget response from Andrew Dismore AM

October 29, 2018 office

In response to the Chancellor’s Budget Announcement, Labour’s London Assembly Economy Spokesperson, Andrew Dismore AM, said: “Today’s budget will leave Londoners asking when they will actually see the end to austerity that they were promised. Eight years of lost pay growth, and cuts to welfare and public services, have left many in hardship and almost everybody worse off. The Chancellor’s […]

London Resilience Partnership report on Brexit

October 25, 2018 office

London Resilience Partnership has published a report ahead of the Brexit meeting today. It’s here https://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/london_resilience_partnership_-_brexit_resilience_report.pdf Here are the key quotes and added some commentary: “for many [resilience partner organisations] the resilience summit itself was a first step or very early phase in their contingency planning.” There is less than six months until the UK leaves the EU and […]

Brexit MQT answers October 18

October 25, 2018 office

Impact of Brexit Question No: 2018/2784 Andrew Dismore What is your present assessment of the impact of Brexit on London? Written response from the Mayor It will depend on the nature of the final Brexit deal, but the independent economic analysis conducted by Cambridge Econometrics found that leaving the EU Single Market and/or Customs Union will have a detrimental […]

Pause Universal Credit roll out in Camden, Dismore urges

October 8, 2018 office

Universal Credit will be rolled out for some new claimants in Camden in December, but fresh calls have been made to pause the process. This comes after a leading charity warned that moving more people onto Universal Credit could trigger a significant increase in foodbank use. Local London Assembly Member, Andrew Dismore AM, warned that there was a “growing abundance […]

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