Archive: Customs Union
It's time for Brexiters to support a customs union
What was once a mainstream eurosceptic option is now blasphemy. It's time for Leavers to get real.
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PCS: Union backs public accounts report on revenue and customs
PCS: Union backs public accounts report on revenue and customs - politics.co.uk
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PCS: Union anger over more revenue and customs office closures
PCS: Union anger over more revenue and customs office closures
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PCS: Union anger over revenue and customs office closures
PCS: Union anger over revenue and customs office closures - politics.co.uk
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Business as usual for customs in transition period
“UK and European Union business will welcome the continuity proposed in today’s agreement"
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If this is all the government has for its Brexit white paper, we're in trouble
The Brexit white paper is full of muddled thinking, desperation and fantasy. It is alarming that this is all they've got.
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We are now on cruise control for soft Brexit
The Chequers statement sets a new baseline expectation for Brexit - one which is looking softer every day.
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This is why May's third-way Brexit compromise doesn't work
May's third-way compromise policy on post-Brexit relationship with the EU is insane
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The Brexit compromise is coming - prepare yourself for the cry of treachery
The end of Brexit negotiation stages can be viewed in the not-too-distant horizon
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Week in Review: Airbus horror story ruins May's no-deal victory
Airbus' Brexit risk assessment is a horror story in multiple parts, each worse than the next.
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Week in Review: Was this the week Brexit fell apart?
A week in which a series of body blows left Brexit reeling.
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Let's be honest: There are no new Brexit ideas to save us
There is another idea wheeling down the Brexit railway and it's as terrible as you might expect.
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Week in Review: Govt kills customs unicorns, magics up some new ones
The customs partnership and max-fac models are dead, but David Davis has invented some new unicorns to solve the Irish border problem
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Week in Review: Customs union fight approaches its climax
The customs union is a small part of the Brexit debacle, but people have wrongly begun to talk as if it somehow solves the Irish border problem.
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What one piece of Jacob Rees-Mogg nonsense tells us about Brexit tactics
A story about how Jacob Rees-Mogg's nonsense can travel halfway around the world before the fact-checkers have got their boots on.
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This is what free movement means to me
The UK's membership of the EU meant I could study in the Nethernalds at a fraction of the price charged to students from outside the bloc.
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Week in Review: Total Brexit stalemate
Theresa May has reached an impasse in the Cabinet on the customs union.
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Lords vote: No place left for Corbyn to hide
The House of Lords defeated the government by 245 votes to 218 and demanded that Britain stays in the single market.
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Bicker all you want about a customs partnership - it's impossible either way
Theresa May is calling a 'War Cabinet' to hammer out a customs solution. But despite the noise, all these options have already been rejected by Brussels.
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No.10's threat of a no-confidence vote on the customs union is constitutional nonsense
The threat to potential Tory rebels is clear: vote for a customs union and you're voting to topple the government.
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Week in Review: Crunch-point is coming for the customs union
The government is caught in a four-way pincer movement on the customs union, each part of which gains confidence from the resilience of the others.
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Disaster road: The Brexit Irish border plan and why it won't work
David Davis is going to throw everything at this and he's going to fail anyway.
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From the horse's mouth: Freight leaders issue warning about hard Brexit
Freight workers warn of prospect of permanent gridlock unless UK government quickly gets a grip on Brexit.
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Just-in-time: The production system Brexit is set to sabotage
Time is running out for the UK to support just-in-time
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Week in Review: Why are we leaving the customs union again?
Leaving the customs union involves an awful lot of pain and absolutely no gain
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The government's customs union plan is an absolute dog's breakfast
After a year of preparation, the Brexit department's offering on the customs union is a mess of unrealistic expectations and untested IT solutions.
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Labour's push to leave the customs union will decimate British industry
The party's Brexit position will destroy the livelihoods of many of its traditional voters
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