EU to grant Brexit delay ‘if UK backs deal’, Toyota to build new Suzuki car in Derbyshire, and more top news
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The European Union will only extend the UK's looming Brexit deadline if members of parliament pass the withdrawal agreement, says Donald Tusk, the president of the European council. That means the UK will now either have to accept Prime Minister Theresa May's deal or exit without an agreement on March 29. Earlier this week, Speaker John Bercow blocked a third vote on May’s Brexit withdrawal agreement, citing a text from 1604 that stipulates a defeated motion cannot be brought back if it remains "substantially the same." ? Here’s what people are saying.
Toyota will produce a new hybrid electric vehicle for Suzuki at its Burnaston plant in Derbyshire in a boon for the UK car industry. Expected to go into production next year, the hybrid will use engines from Toyota’s North Wales facility, with electric components imported from Japan — becoming the first car the Japanese carmaker will have produced in Britain. Last month, Honda announced as many as 7,000 jobs could be lost as a result of the closure of its Swindon plant. ? Here’s what people are saying.
The chronic shortage of GPs is so great it cannot be filled, a report by three think-tanks has claimed, warning that urgent action is needed to tackle staff shortages in Britain’s NHS. The Nuffield Trust, The King’s Fund and the Health Foundation are calling for the deployment of skilled staff, including pharmacists and physiotherapists, “much more widely and routinely in and alongside general practice”. The NHS needs to hire thousands of healthcare professionals to meet the goals of the government’s ambitious Long Term Plan. ? Here’s what people are saying.
The finance industry is taking roughly ￡1 trillion in assets out of the UK as a result of Brexit uncertainty – up by ￡200 billion from an estimate in January, according to data from EY. That comes as firms are triggering their contingency plans just days before the UK's currently scheduled departure from the EU on March 29. Roughly 7,000 finance jobs are expected to move outside the UK, with Frankfurt, Paris and Dublin the most popular destinations, EY says. ? Here’s what people are saying.
Barclays has agreed a record ￡10m deal with the Football Association to sponsor English women’s football. The three-year agreement will see the lender billed as the “title sponsor” of the top tier annual Women’s Super League, featuring Manchester City, Arsenal and Chelsea. The deal, which represents the largest company sponsorship in UK women’s sport, will also support school football schemes. Barclays is also a big sponsor of the Premier League to the tune of ￡30m a year. ? Here’s what people are saying.
Idea of the Day: Time-based firms spend too much energy tracking, logging and justifying hours, says business model and pricing strategist Tim Williams.
“Value-led firms turn their attention to measuring what really matters: deadlines met, promises kept, work delivered, and results achieved.”
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Suppliers of processed glass products
5 年Just donated to the DUP and Leave means Leave campiagn. ??
I saw video yesterday of Indian children complaining about not being allowed to choose a career of their choice, instead being forced to become doctors, lawyers, engineers and achieve over 90% in all subjects. Before the rise of the middle class in India the poor parents used to force such educational expectations on their children to ensure they had a better chance at life and to have the skills to provide financial security for them and their family. A number of those doctors and nurses came to the UK and work(ed) in the NHS filling the gap with what one can only assume was/is a lack of the same educational expectations by parents in the UK. Now it seems that the eternal push for privatisation of the NHS has driven those and new doctors to the private sector and left us with a headline on staff shortages across the NHS. In an age where youtubing is now a career choice for adults and children alike, commenting whilst playing games or opening toys and reacting, even reacting whilst watching other videos is now a source of revenue and stardom for many. How can we expect to fill this void in our health care industry by future generations unless there is a return to educational expectations by parents and governments alike. Instead of schools teaching 4 year olds about how adults want society to accept their varying forms of self-images and how people choose to be intimate with other people. A concerted effort needs to be made to teach children about the importance of becoming, healthcare professionals, engineers and the likes thereof, because as other nations prosper they too will start to change the educational expectations of their children and we will no longer be able to import our doctors/nurses/surgeons widening the ever increasing gap between healthcare seekers and providers.
Human Resources
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stores porter at Birmingham Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
5 年This is only betrayal of the British people honour the vote that the British people have done the will of the people must take president over that of Parliament they voted to leave so on the 29th of March they should leave with or without a deal because if they don't then what was the point of voting at all
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5 年We leave ??