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V interesting story from Laura about ventilator challenge..At the time, other manufacturers felt that in the key March 16th meeting the PM was especially keen to involve Dyson and JCB,

Let me tell you just two* stories which might have wider resonance about a special person who we were saying bye to today... Dadu, Mukul, Chow to some, to me...

Taiwan, closest neighbouring country to Wuhan, free of local transmission for 200 days with growing economy in 2020, thanks to - world class test & trace averaging 20-30 contacts per

Coming up on @BBCNewsnight - I’m presenting, we hear from @marcusrashford, an MP defending the Government, and also top trade adviser Dan Hannah on the big trade deal with Japan,

Cabinet ministers sending “urgent message” to businesses about being ready for post Brexit trade changes, deal or not, acknowledging “challenging times” but saying that failing to do so risks business

PM to Marr: “EU needs to understand we utterly serious about controlling our own laws/regulations..and repatriation of fisheries”Marr: in any way worried about no deal in mid of pandemic?PM: “I

NEW: EU has rejected and UK “obviously can not insist upon” a key car industry priority on foreign parts in the post Brexit trade deal currently being negotiated, Lord David

Errrm.It’s Joe Biden’s actual campaign tag line launched two months ago??? Isnt Build Back Best, better? I see the CBI were using the phraseology back in May too.On this evidence,

Busy day - another story - supermarkets have conducted an exercise calculating the UK Global Tariff on internal food/ drink supply chain data for trade with EU (obv zero now),

Just been on @bbcR4today talking to Justin about this Gove letter to industry about updated “reasonable worst case scenario” for post Brexit transition period border - first time clear acknowledgement

Big takeaway from sobering Whitty/ Valance press conference - this is serious, have to stop weekly doubling of infections, don’t misunderstand the currently low hospitalisation rates - vaccines are on

Government’s new 21 point flowchart for exports of meat and dairy to EU after a No Deal Brexit... currently would consist of driving produce through tunnel - now this requires