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Despite the referendum result being in favour or leaving the EU, polling now shows a majority of people regret that decision. Why has this shift happened and could it lead to the UK rejoining the EU?

Multiple EU MPs publicly stated that UK would need to show strong consistent support for EU rejoining, but with the public and across all major parties. Reason being they don’t want a revolving door situation depending on who’s in power in the UK. That means it’ll be a very long time before the UK intention to rejoin is even taken seriously.

I think the EU wouldn’t welcome the UK back with open arms due to the massive instability it caused in the block, that’s one of the reasons former French president Charles de Gaulle vetoed the UK joining the club twice 😅

The UK should just show up at the European parliament and pretend they never quit. Act as if nothing happened, like that episode of Seinfeld.

Britain is currently in the process of reviewing and deleting EU laws that were copy and pasted over into British legislation. That might sound reasonable, but there are tens of thousands of laws to look through, and they've given themselves a dangerously tight deadline...

Sadiq Khan tells Times Radio: Rising poverty leads to rising crime

“Fear of Nigel Farage… has forced Conservative politicians into taking a much harder line on Europe and indeed on immigration.”

As the Conservatives struggle with immigration, economic turmoil, and anger at a cost of living crisis after 12 years in government, could these be the perfect conditions for the resurgence of a populist force from the Right – Nigel Farage?

Matt Chorley discusses with YouGov pollster Tanya Abraham, Professor Tim Bale, Reform UK leader Richard Tice, and the chair of the One Nation Conservatives Caucus, Damian Green MP.

A Tory MP’s bid to force Rishi Sunak to ignore rulings from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) over the deportation of illegal alien Muslim asylum seekers to Rwanda was today defeated at the first hurdle.
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Mr Gullis said his proposals would mean “we can get the migrant-wannabes who have entered the UK illegally, onto the flights to Rwanda” and in the future to other safe countries to have their claims processed. “Thereby changing the law to explicitly ignore the European Court of Human Rights from meddling in our sovereignty on this specific matter.

Mr Sunak reiterated “our new legislation will deliver a system whereby a person who comes here illegally will have no right to stay and will be removed to their own country or a safe third country alternative”.

Britain has struggled with inflation over the past year, in large part because of energy costs. But other factors - including Brexit and a standoff between suppliers and grocers - have created something more alarming in recent: visible food shortages.

Just to clarify, wholesalers prices have shot up 50 percent but the supermarkets will not pay extra money for the food. Hence empty shelves.

I've haven't had any problems buying fruit and veg or anything else here in the UK!

Never been a better time to dig up some of that useless back yard grass and start yourself a garden.  Good for the planet, good for you, and tastes great.  I also enjoy gifting a basket of fresh veggies to friends/neighbors, who always genuinely appreciate it.

Obviously, there has been no push or help towards people becoming farmers or growing food, UK has far to many massive producers, not enough smaller producers who are local,
You will see plenty of funding/ advertising towards ,
" become a full stack developer in 26 weeks
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" Get into the social care sector "
" Get a loan for a degree "
Etc , etc
Nothing towards pushing local community to grow food and offer a framework to follow with funding, imagine what kind of new industry that would create, new jobs can be created, locally

In a nutshell, UKs problem is the similitude of many countries, they rely upon others too much and when the 💩 hits the fan , they got no back up or have shot themselves in the foot and everyone else has to suffer for free

Over the last few weeks, the UK has become accustom to finding empty shelves in supermarkets. The thing is, that unlike during COVID, this is a fairly UK specific phenonium. So why is Britain running out of food, and is Brexit to blame?

While most of the world is struggling with higher than average inflation, the problem is particularly pronounced in the UK. So in this video, we discuss why inflation is so high in the UK compared to its European neighbours and whether Brexit is to blame.

NIIGATA, Japan, May 13 (Reuters) - British finance minister Jeremy Hunt said on Saturday it would be "absolutely devastating" if the United States failed to reach agreement to raise its debt ceiling and had its gross domestic product "knocked off track".

Hunt told reporters that Group of Seven (G7) finance chiefs in Japan had "very frank and open discussions" about the challenges they face, including banking regulation and the impact of Russia's war in Ukraine on the global economy.

A standoff between President Joe Biden and the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, which has raised the prospect of a first-ever U.S. debt default, posed a "very serious threat to the global economy," Hunt said.

"It would be absolutely devastating if America, which is one of the biggest motors of the global economy, was to have its GDP knocked off track by not reaching agreement," he said. He said he hoped that Biden and Congress would be able to resolve their differences.

Hunt said G7 officials also discussed the impact of Western sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, and talked at length about the need to stop sanctions evasion, or leakage...

Legal migration is too high, says Rishi Sunak
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“The numbers are too high, and we want to bring them down,” Mr Sunak said, adding that figures were higher in 2022 due to Ukrainian refugees coming to the UK, something he said the country should be “proud of”.