June's Political Intelligence
June 2020 discussions in the UK Parliament have been marked by the urgency of the EU-UK negotiations and future relationship including UK-EU Withdrawal Agreement, EU Free Trade Agreement, the UK Immigration Rules, the merger of Department for International Development (DFID) and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), as well as the “Black Lives Matter” social movement, the need of continuous outstanding measures for economic recovery from Covid-19 crisis, DEFRA regulations for environmental protection against single-use plastics and a potentially new APPG on racial bias.
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March/April's Political Intelligence
In the light of the Brexit transition period until 31 December 2020, which remains to see if extended due to Cv-19 outbreak, The House of Commons opened in the beginning of March with a discussion concerning the UK’s future generation.
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February's Political Intelligence
Despite the rise of Coronavirus, it seems that UK politics has been churning on, nevertheless. Post lunar new-year saw the beginning of covid-19, in the province of Wuhan.
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January's Political Intelligence
In the UK, the New Year was headed by Boris and his campaign to exit the UK from Europe. In December Boris set the scene by claiming that it was ‘epically likely’ that he would secure a trade deal with the EU by the end of 2019. Yet, like many things in politics this did not cultivate.
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October's Political Intelligence
Escaping the deadline of the 31st of October, another month of Brexit negotiations has passed and what happens next remains unclear.
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Political Intelligence: August & September
Despite summer recess, August was an eventful month for British Politics— marked by resignations, nominations, summits and what has been labelled as the biggest blow to democracy.
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July Political Intelligence
July 2019 brought us a number of jaw-dropping moments. Multiple heatwaves with the highest ever UK temperature recorded in Cambridge hitting 38.5 °C, Boris Johnson elected as Leader of the UK Conservative Party and subsequently the new Prime Minister, and the UK encapsulated in various international disputes, with Iran seizing a British oil tanker in the Persian Gulf, and with the US over leaked emails leading to Ambassador Sir Kim Darroch’s resignation.
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June Political Intelligence
June was a success for fashion in the House of Commons; Dr Lisa Cameron, chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Textiles and Fashion (for which Fashion Roundtable provide the secretariat) mentioned the industry on two separate occasions. Mary Creagh MP, chair of the Environmental Audit Committee, which questioned retailers and government officials for the Committee’s sustainability of the fashion industry inquiry, brought up the disappointing (but again, expected) news that government rejected all of the recommendations made in the final report.
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March Political Intelligence
Uncertainty has been the main theme of Brexit – who is making the decisions, what are the decisions and on what grounds are they being made? From your typical News Night viewer to the ambitious business owner to those sitting in Parliament, no one seems to fully comprehend what is going on. As well as being very tiring, it is expensive. Businesses cannot prepare for the unknown, and millions of pounds have already been spent (possibly in vain) on Brexit contingency plans both in the public and private sectors.
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February Political Intelligence
In a bold act of rebellion, seven Labour MPs broke away from the Party and united as the Independent Party. Declaring their loss of faith and disappointment in a Party that no longer represents their values, Luciana Berger, Ann Coffey, Mike Gapes, Chris Leslie, Gavin Shuker, Angela Smith and Chuka Umunna summoned a press conference to announce their resignation and intention to sit in Parliament as a “new, Independent Group of MPs.”
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