A YouGov poll last week found 63 per cent think the government is handling Brexit badly. Read more at straitstimes.com.
- British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday defended Brexit, insisting that leaving the EU had brought significant achievements and offered a “huge opportunity”, three years after“In the three years since leaving the EU, we’ve made huge strides in harnessing the freedoms unlocked by Brexit to tackle generational challenges,” Mr Sunak said in a statement ahead of Tuesday’s three-year anniversary since the country formally left the EU.
He said this included Europe’s fastest vaccine rollout, trade deals with 70 countries and “taking back control of our borders”. Mr Sunak did not mention the problems in Northern Ireland surrounding post-Brexit trading agreements that have led to months of negotiations between London and Brussels. Mr Sunak also included a bill going through parliament to scrap all the EU laws automatically retained post-Brexit and a new system of subsidies to business without “unnecessary EU bureaucracy”.
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