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[Link] ‘Meltdown’ at UK passport renewals forces travellers to cancel Easter breaks
Read: 10/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
Travellers are being forced to cancel Easter travel bookings because of a backlog at HM Passport Office which is delaying renewals. Some passengers have been left hundreds of pounds out of pocket because their new passports failed to arrive before their departure date.
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[Link] The young loyalist who dared contemplate the idea of a ‘new’, united, Ireland
Read: 22/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
He was the teenage supermarket worker who shocked MPs examining loyalist anger in Northern Ireland by claiming that sometimes violence “was the only tool you have left”. Joel Keys left the committee chair, Tory MP Simon Hoare, “chilled and appalled” and he faced a media backlash.
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[Link] Article 16 ‘very much on the table’ in Brexit row, says Frost
Read: 6/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
David Frost, the UK’s Brexit minister, has said triggering article 16 to suspend post-Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland is “very much on the table”, as he met his EU counterpart in Brussels.
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[Link] Police attacked in Belfast at protest over Northern Ireland protocol
Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Police in Belfast have been attacked with missiles and fireworks following a demonstration against the Brexit protocol in the north of the city. The disorder on Wednesday night took place on Lanark Way in the loyalist Shankill Road area close to the peace wall.
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[Link] What may happen if article 16 of Northern Ireland protocol is triggered?
Read: 5/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
The UK Brexit minister, David Frost, has stepped up demands on the EU to renegotiate the Northern Ireland protocol, a linchpin of Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal. At a speech to the Conservative party conference, Frost said “tinkering around the edges” of the protocol would not be enough.
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[Link] Brexit ‘divorce bill’ higher than UK’s forecasts, Brussels estimates
Read: 14/7/2021 www.theguardian.com
The UK’s Brexit “divorce bill” is €47.5bn (£40.8bn) according to estimates from Brussels that are higher than the government’s forecasts. The first tranche, €6.8bn, is due for payment by the end of the year.
[Link] Move to EU to avoid Brexit costs, firms told
Read: 24/1/2021 www.theguardian.com
British businesses that export to the continent are being encouraged by government trade advisers to set up separate companies inside the EU in order to get around extra charges, paperwork and taxes resulting from Brexit, the Observer can reveal.