The UK will finally impose checks on EU fresh food next week.

I've tracked the journey bacon takes from Denmark to the UK, to illustrate the new reality of Brexit - that while trade doesn't stop, it's about to become harder and that bit more expensive
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If Rwanda is a safe country, why is the Home Office granting asylum to people who have fled the country’s regime?
Tonight, they share their stories with us.
Watch our full report here. Produced by Ilaria D. Cafaro and filmed / edited by Leon Troth channel4.com/news/376285

Massive cost overruns mean UK government plans to house asylum seekers on former military bases and barges will cost even more than allowing them to remain in hotels, according to the spending watchdog bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Bloomberg Politics Bloomberg UK Lucy White

While the UK government presses on with its plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, insisting it's a safe place, last year it granted asylum protection to 15 people from... Rwanda. Story here Bloomberg bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

We've got an excellent Budget game out from Joe Mayes today - no paywall! So if you reckon you could make better choices than the Chancellor... bloomberg.com/features/2024-…

Fascinating Bloomberg UK scoop on Shein considering listing in the UK

It could be London’s biggest ever IPO. Jeremy Hunt seems keen. It’d be a much-needed boost after a lack of new flotations

But what would it mean for UK China policy, modern slavery and Tory internal politics?

Sunak's attempts to limit immigration of students and workers are incompatible with efforts to make the UK a scientific superpower, says Ewan Kirk - hedge fund founder, entrepreneur and adviser to BAE Systems bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

This isn't promising -- warning from the gov's Migration Advisory Committee that upping pay thresholds for migrant workers creates care worker exploitation risk. Private sector employers must pay migrants more, but gov won't meet those standards in NHS bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

As well as showing wage growth is sticky, the ONS jobs data revealed the scale of UK employers' reliance on non-EU foreign workers. 1.2m increase since Dec 2019, while UK and EU worker numbers have dropped by 1m. Big shift as @shjfrench pointed out earlier
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Awks for Hunt.
He may get extra fiscal space for tax cuts in the budget thanks to ....
surging net migration.
So Tories get something they want from something they don't want.

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What went down in Belfast in the early hours of this morning? What’s coming next? And what does it all mean for the union?

Me, Lizzy Burden and Stephen Carroll chat about it on the Bloomberg UK politics podcast
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Keep an eye on this. Could start becoming a problem if it leads to a big increase in unemployment bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

📊🗳️NEW DATA: Older, Richer, Whiter: The Voters Deciding Next UK Leader Bloomberg UK analysis show Keir Starmer must also win places with more homeowners & are more likely to be White to reach power Emily Ashton

Full story NO PAYWALL & thread of key charts

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UK government ministers have agreed to meet with entrepreneurs and investors in an effort to allay a growing uproar over changes to the “angel investor” program bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Lucy White

Interesting Q for Hunt at budget -- how far do you push the public finances in an election year?

Government's breathing space against its fiscal targets is already near historic lows ... markets watching closely 1/

Interesting chart here from piece with Lucy White on how immigration is now being driven by people from outside the EU.

Alasdair Murdoch, CEO of Burger King UK, said: “A lot of Europeans went home during Covid and they didn’t come back.”

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Shocking testament from Fujitsu exec Patterson on the Post Office scandal saying witness statements provided by Fujitsu staff, used to prosecute sub-postmasters, were edited to remove reference to the bugs in Horizon bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

NEW:
* House of Lords could pass #RwandaBill by mid-March
* First proper debate by end-Jan
* Key votes in Lords likely first week of March
* Officials still optimistic for 'spring' Kigali flights

via Lucy White Emily Ashton and me

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