Getting Brexit Done

The Government and HMRC are contacting businesses in Great Britain who move goods between Great Britain and the EU, to explain what they need to do to be able to trade with the EU from 1 January 2021.

On 29th September 2020, the ninth round of EU-UK future relationship negotiations began.

On 30 September 2020, the UK signed its first fisheries framework agreement since leaving the EU.

BREAKING: Labour just voted to side with the EU once again.

By voting against the UK Internal Market Bill – which will guarantee seamless trade between the home nations of the UK - they've shown they won’t stand up to Brussels or protect the United Kingdom from the SNP.

Amidst everything else going on the UK is currently involved in some major trading negotiations as we take advantage of some of the opportunities presented by Brexit. One of the most contentious issues within these talks are food and agricultural standards.

I am writing this on January 31st 2020  – by the time you read this the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland will have left the European Union. This has been a long time coming.

Work in Parliament has begun again in earnest after the hiatus of the election and Christmas recess, and the Government has hit the ground running.

The Conservatives will get Brexit done.

As the Gazette goes to press this week the country is readying itself for a General Election on Thursday 12 December – the first election at this time of year since Stanley Baldwin went to the country in December 1923.

Written by Alex Burghart for the Brentwood Gazette