Latest updates: No 10 refuses to say whether conditions attached to EU’s no deal contingency plans are acceptable; Raab plays down concerns about food prices
- EU no-deal transport offer in return for ‘level playing field’ agreement
- Analysis: worst economic slump in 300 years bad platform for talks
- ‘Deadlock at dinner’: what the papers say
- UK holidaymakers banned from EU from 1 January under Covid rules
1.19pm GMT
Steve Peers, a professor of EU law, has a useful Twitter thread summing up the EU’s no deal contingency plans published today. It starts here.
EU ‘no deal’ unilateral contingency measures published – to deal with aviation, air safety, road haulage, fisheries
press release – https://t.co/wbkPV9yO30
legal texts – https://t.co/0uYtt2ly5h
Fisheries: proposal is probably fanfic on EU side. Add it to the piles of Brexity and Remainer fanfic in the UK. pic.twitter.com/A9rLXfA7fs
1.13pm GMT
Scotland’s Covid death toll has now passed 4,000 according to the daily measure, Nicola Sturgeon confirmed before FMQs today, but the session was dominated by the ongoing Salmond inquiry.
Scottish Tories’ Holyrood leader Ruth Davidson was relentless in her questioning of Sturgeon over contradictions between evidence she herself has put forward and the oral evidence her husband, Peter Murrell, the chief executive of the SNP, gave on Tuesday about her meetings with Salmond to discuss allegations of sexual harassment.
Continue reading…Latest updates: No 10 refuses to say whether conditions attached to EU’s no deal contingency plans are acceptable; Raab plays down concerns about food pricesEU no-deal transport offer in return for ‘level playing field’ agreementAnalysis: worst economic slump in 300 years bad platform for talks‘Deadlock at dinner’: what the papers sayUK holidaymakers banned from EU from 1 January under Covid rules 1.19pm GMTSteve Peers, a professor of EU law, has a useful Twitter thread summing up the EU’s no deal contingency plans published today. It starts here.EU ‘no deal’ unilateral contingency measures published – to deal with aviation, air safety, road haulage, fisheriespress release – https://t.co/wbkPV9yO30legal texts – https://t.co/0uYtt2ly5hFisheries: proposal is probably fanfic on EU side. Add it to the piles of Brexity and Remainer fanfic in the UK. pic.twitter.com/A9rLXfA7fs 1.13pm GMTScotland’s Covid death toll has now passed 4,000 according to the daily measure, Nicola Sturgeon confirmed before FMQs today, but the session was dominated by the ongoing Salmond inquiry.Scottish Tories’ Holyrood leader Ruth Davidson was relentless in her questioning of Sturgeon over contradictions between evidence she herself has put forward and the oral evidence her husband, Peter Murrell, the chief executive of the SNP, gave on Tuesday about her meetings with Salmond to discuss allegations of sexual harassment. Continue reading…