Louise Haigh is expected to agree to cut a target for EV sales by about a quarter
Andy Burnham says he wants the UK to move to a closer relationship with the EU after the next election and one option would be to join the single market. This would significantly boost trade with the EU, but it would involve Britain accepting free movement rules. Norway is in this position – not in the EU, but in the single market.
At one point before the 2016 Brexit referendum, even Nigel Farage would sometimes say that the Norway option would be a good choice for the UK.
After Brexit, British friends called me and said, tell us about the Norwegian way of doing it. And I said, if you left the EU because there was too much Brussels, don’t take the Norwegian version. Because here, you know, basically we are taking most of their decisions, we implement them.
It is hard to see their decision to post about a Sikh festival at precisely 11am, at the very moment that people across the country were observing a two-minute silence to honour our war dead, as a coincidence.
There is no reason why they couldn’t have recognised both – not least out of respect to the 83,000 Sikhs killed fighting in both World Wars.
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