Now, now. Don't laugh too much.

Free trade deal with the European Union comes into force #EUNZFTA rnz.co.nz/news/business/…

🚨🚨 Essential read by Aslak Berg drawing insights from the EFTA-EU experience to date in how a potential design of UK's relationship with the European Union might look in the future. h/t CER Charles Grant Roland Smith Ian Bond @efta4 cer.eu/insights/livin…

It feels like the tides are finally starting to turn on this.

Allowing a few thousand unelected & unaccountable people to appoint a Prime Minister is fundamentally anti-democratic.

The choice should be returned to elected MPs, who are answerable to the public for their choices.

🚨🚨I went to Anglesey Freeport, part of Michael Gove’s “unfinished cathedral” of levelling up…you can see that freeports make sense locally, as economic place-making tools, even if OBR says they’ll make no odds nationally/1

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Regarding the UK-Switzerland Agreement on Mutual Recognition of Financial Services, the International Agreements Committee welcomes this Agreement. We call on the Government to continue to examine other pathways to lowering regulatory barriers to trade in financial services (1/4)

For more, please read my latest insight for CER cer.eu/insights/livin…

The UK now finds itself outside the EU along with the EFTA countries. Although the UK hasn’t shown interest in as close a relationship with the EU as EFTA, Labour has indicated they would be willing to align in certain areas. Can the UK draw lessons from EFTA’s experience? (1/x)

Learning from the EFTA experience- an informative thread 🧵 👇👇👇

1/ Before the referendum, the IEA held a prize to see who could come up with the best brexit plan. The winning entry and others were released as a book:

Thread from a few years ago
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Prime Minister of Japan addressing US Congress shocked that the US is ceding it's position of Arsenal of Democracy, no longer backing democratic allies, bowing to Russia.

Trump's MAGA has totally destroyed US's global credibility.

Breaking:

Ex-Trump Org. CFO Allen Weisselberg has just been sentenced to five months in jail for lying under oath during Trump's civil fraud trial.

It’s done: 🇪🇺 #MigrationPact has been APPROVED by the European Parliament. All parts have received a yes vote.

It will overhaul EU rules on processing migrants and asylum claims. Votes against by far left (saying too harsh) and far right (saying not harsh enough) weren’t enough.

Turns out Home to grow a box of Lions mane #Mushrooms successfully is surprisingly easy.
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We are reminded of this book by Jonathan Lindsell and wish that more MPs had read it.

The U.K. has the chance to align with the U.S. rather than wait around for the EU — but the square mile isn’t biting.

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Voice of Europe (Voice of Europe 🌍) is a Russian subversion operation against the West that is bribing European politicians, but sure, let them spread disinformation on Twitter as a 'verified organization.'

🕵️How the Kremlin's intelligence service-run foreign influence operations blend with Viktor Orbán's: Voice of Europe, the Prague-based covert Russian influence operation network distrupted by Czech counterintelligence, has reportedly been paying Hungarians as well.

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