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Read our latest blog by @DrKumodji88, Clarity or Constraint? - “Woman Means Biological Woman”: What the Supreme Court’s Ruling Means for Gender Equality in the Workplace and HR Law and Practice in the UK. centreforbrexitstudiesblog.w…

Clarity or Constraint? – “Woman Means Biological Woman”: What the Supreme Court’s Ruling Means for...

By Dr. Bertha Dzifa Kumodji BBA, MBA, Ph.D., MBAM, MIoL, ASSOC MAPM, MSHRM, MCIPD, FCIHRM, CMgr MCMI HR & Recruitment, Workforce and Organisational Development, The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital N…

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Read our latest blog by @realVickyPryce, Are interest rate cuts the only hope for the UK  economy? centreforbrexitstudiesblog.w…

Are interest rate cuts the only hope for the UK  economy?

Vicky Pryce,  Senior Fellow, BCU Centre for Brexit Studies  Where are we now? Despite the 90 day pause announced by President Trump on the additional ‘reciprocal ‘tariffs he was imposing …

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Ex-UK defence minister ‘disgusted’ by Trump’s attitude to Putin and Russia theguardian.com/world/2025/a…

Ex-UK defence minister ‘disgusted’ by Trump’s attitude to Putin and Russia

Grant Shapps also compares calling Sumy strike a ‘mistake’ to statements by IRA terror group when it killed civilians

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EU names seven countries as safe in plan to fast-track migrant returns bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1k4…

EU names seven countries as safe in plan to speed up migrant returns

Citizens from Kosovo, Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt, India, Morocco and Tunisia would all have their claims fast-tracked.

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Plan for GPs to keep millions out of hospital bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgrg…

Plan for GPs to keep millions of patients out of hospital

GPs will work more closely with specialists to support patients closer to home, the government says.

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UK and France in talks over migrant returns deal bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c99p…

UK and France in talks over migrant returns deal

The scheme would return illegal migrants who cross the Channel in exchange for the UK taking legal migrants.

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Read our latest blog by Nicholas Hurtado, The Choice is Clear: The UK and EU Must Choose Each Other centreforbrexitstudiesblog.w…

The Choice is Clear: The UK and EU Must Choose Each Other

By Nicholas Hurtado It is apparent that relations between the leaders of Europe and those of the US have been consistently turbulent so far this year, to put it very mildly…

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Read our latest blog by @realVickyPryce, Tax and the City centreforbrexitstudiesblog.w…

Tax and the City

Vicky Pryce, Senior Fellow, BCU Centre for Brexit Studies This being spring statement week, the focus is inevitably on what the Chancellor Rachel Reeves may do to safeguard her much maligned fiscal…

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Vicky Pryce@realVickyPryce24 Mar 2025
Important week ahead - but the spring statement, however much hyped, is unlikely to do much to reduce uncertainty. Growth, as I discussed in my earlier @BCU_Brexit blog, is bound to suffer. @Cebr_uk @Radix_UK
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Read our latest blog by @realVickyPryce, Can we cope with the new era of volatility and uncertainty? centreforbrexitstudiesblog.w…

Can we cope with the new era of volatility and uncertainty?

 Vicky Pryce, Senior Fellow, Centre for Brexit StudiesWe have now entered a new era of uncertainty. The VIX volatility index , which measures stock market volatility expectations based S&P 500 …

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The Trump project joins Brexit as one of the greatest acts of national self-harm – ⁦@BCU_Brexit⁩ centreforbrexitstudiesblog.w…

The Trump project joins Brexit as one of the greatest acts of national self-harm

Ferry Biedermann Donald Trump seemed unfazed earlier this month when confronted with the prospect of a severe slowdown of the US economy. He’s presenting it as a necessary period of adjustment…

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No one knows why UK benefit claims have outpaced peer countries ft.com/content/1e3866f0-b89e…

No one knows why UK benefit claims have outpaced peer countries

Asking why might well result in answers that involve spending more money

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Reeves to squeeze public spending further in Spring Statement ft.com/content/2f72d3c9-4508…

Reeves to squeeze public spending further in Spring Statement

Billions of pounds of savings sought from Whitehall budgets to plug hole in public finances

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Minister refuses to rule out further benefit cuts amid backlash over cuts to disability payments – UK politics live theguardian.com/politics/liv…

Starmer must drop ‘cruel’ Pip proposals or face ‘mother of all rebellions’, Labour MP says – UK...

Richard Burgon says PM’s failure to defend new Pip eligibility rules at PMQs shows why ‘cruel’ plans should be dropped

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Lammy says Israel international law remarks 'could have been clearer' bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn52…

Lammy says Israel international law remarks 'could have been clearer'

The foreign secretary had twice told MPs Israel's aid blockade into Gaza was a "breach" of international law.

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Starmer says cost of sickness benefits 'devastating' bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8v…

Starmer says cost of sickness benefits 'devastating'

The prime minister's remarks come after the government announced a major benefits overhaul on Tuesday.

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Read our latest blog by @ferrybiedermann, The Trump project joins Brexit as one of the greatest acts of national self-harm centreforbrexitstudiesblog.w…

The Trump project joins Brexit as one of the greatest acts of national self-harm

Ferry Biedermann Donald Trump seemed unfazed earlier this month when confronted with the prospect of a severe slowdown of the US economy. He’s presenting it as a necessary period of adjustment…

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The Conservatives complicate the politics of net zero for Labour ft.com/content/a1b29671-3938…

The Conservatives complicate the politics of net zero for Labour

The Tories’ new stance that the target is ‘impossible’ will deter Labour from anything that looks politically painful

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Minister defends disability benefit cuts, saying you can’t ‘tax and borrow your way out of need to reform state’ – UK politics live theguardian.com/politics/liv…

Up to 1.2m people could lose between £4,200 and £6,300 per year from changes to Pip, Resolution...

Work and pensions secretary says Benefits crackdown will save £5bn by 2030 but disability charities say cuts are ‘immoral’

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Cutting benefits is ‘not a Labour thing to do’, says Diane Abbott theguardian.com/politics/202…

Cutting benefits is ‘not a Labour thing to do’, says Diane Abbott

Party’s longest-serving MP says she agrees with Ed Balls and Andy Burnham, who have criticised planned welfare cuts

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Starmer urged to introduce wealth tax instead of cutting disability benefits – UK politics live theguardian.com/politics/liv…

David Lammy says G7 considering further moves to pressure Russia into agreeing Ukraine ceasefire –...

‘We have more cards we can play,’ foreign secretary tells MPs as he says G7 foreign ministers found ‘common ground’ when meeting last week

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