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Thousands of shipping containers at the Port of Felixstowe in Suffolk, on the east coast of England, the Britain's largest and busiest container port, October 31, 2024
CHANCELLOR Rachel Reeves’s dash for growth has hit fresh turbulence as ministers ruled out joining a European customs arrangement but announced moves to scrap planning restrictions on major projects.
Cabinet Office minister Nick Thomas-Symonds said the government did not currently have any plans to join the Pan-Euro Mediterranean Convention, which allows tariff-free trade in materials for manufacturing supply chains across Europe and north Africa.
EU Commissioner Maros Sefcovic, who leads on the bloc’s links with Britain, made the suggestion following PM Sir Keir Starmer’s stated aim of “resetting” trade links across the Channel.
Incredibly, US Republican states are systematically dismantling child labour protections, with children transformed back into the cheap, disposable workers of the Dickens era, reports ANDREW MURRAY
