Three years after Brexit and Tim Doggett, boss of Chemical Business Association Chemical Business Association warns progress on UK REACH is “frustrating and painfully slow” — that’s the voice of the actual SME supply chain speaking. 🤯😖😡

As Polly Mackenzie said on Tuesday's How to Win an Election pod:

'Keir Starmer or any incoming PM needs to think deeply about how they'll set standards & a culture of behaviour for their parliamentarians'

Find out how at this Institute for Government event👇

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Standards in government and parliament are in the news again - as luck would have it, we've got an event at lunchtime today to discuss just that! instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/general-…

Important by Alan Beattie The implics of EU stipulations on emissions, deforestation etc on low and middle income countries, have not been properly thought through. Which of course is another old EU tradition. ft.com/content/d67665…

I know everyone's moved onto defence spending, but I've been thinking a lot about Sunak's announcement on disability benefits, work and the war on 'sick note culture', through the lens of my own experience with an energy-limiting disability.

🍻 We are buzzing for Anand Menon to interview Sir John Curtice tonight...

🎟️ This event is SOLD OUT and oversubscribed so make sure you get there early to guarantee a seat.

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Jill Rutter I agree. It also reflects a wider malaise in official government comms, which is increasingly captured by dubious political presentation of data, evidence, and analysis. Officials seem to no longer know where to draw the line or even if there should be a line.

Ben is 100% right.
Numbers used in describing increase in defence spending are impenetrable, misleading & internally inconsistent.
Committing to 2.5% of GDP on defence is big and important. There is no need for this profusion of overblown and inconsistent numerical claims.

1/ Another addition to the list of 'things the UK does worse than peer countries for foolish political reasons': VAT.

My latest is on why the UK should be putting VAT on pretty much everything, and how VAT exclusions distort the economy and politics.

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one for Dr Joelle Grogan Catherine Barnard

🚨 EVENT ALERT 🚨

👉 There are a few in-person tickets for our event with Sir John Curtice now available....

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this was a great panel and excellent discussion .. watch again on UK in a Changing Europe #Youtube channel.. thanks to minette batters Carmen Hubbard Alan Matthews

UK in a Changing Europe minette batters Alan Matthews Jill Rutter UK Food and Trade Minsters will be testifying on UK agrifood trade this afternoon at the Commons EFRA Committee
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🥪 FOOD 🐄 FARMING 🌾 AND THE FUTURE 🚀

🚨 Join minette batters, Carmen Hubbard, Alan Matthews and Jill Rutter TODAY at 1pm for a discussion of all things agricultural policy.

Perfect lunch time listening... 🍔

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