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Why didn't the UK want a return policy when negotiating Brexit?
The UK government did propose two possible agreements for returning certain migrants, but to understand why they were not taken up by the EU you have to understand the brexit negotiation process.
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Why didn't the UK want a return policy when negotiating Brexit?
The report the video references, Sea Change on Border Control: A Strategy for Reducing Small Boat Crossings in the English Channel by Professor Thom Brooks suggests that the government "failed to ...
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Is UK vaccine rollout really a Brexit benefit?
Multiple sources say it's not true.
https://fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-vaccine-brexit/
https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-brexit-did-not-speed-up-uk-vaccine-authorisation
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Would it make sense to move the "capital" of Europe away from Brussels?
Would it make sense to move the seat of the EU institutions now in Brussels (at least some of them) to a place that reflects more the current center of the union (Vienna, Prague, somewhere else)?
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Has Nigel Farage ever responded to his "Unfinished Business" quote?
A caller on Farage's show on LBC radio put this quote to him on September 3rd, 2016. Farage denied making the comment, suggesting that he had been predicting that members of the Conservative party ...
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What's Hans-Olaf Henkel's position on the EU?
Henkel has been mostly quiet since he left the European Parliament in 2019, so I'll give an answer that reflects his positions at that time. Unfortunately, my sources are in German, as I have not been ...
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Has any other act of parliament compelled the Government or PM to take action like the Benn Act does?
Section 234 of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 introduced duties for the Prime Minister associated with publishing the reports of the Investigatory Powers Commissioner. https://www.legislation.gov....
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Is UK vaccine rollout really a Brexit benefit?
Expanding on @Trilarion's answer, if we take "number of COVID deaths" as the primary metric, we can build the following chart between March 20th 2021 (when half of the UK got their first jab)...
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Is UK vaccine rollout really a Brexit benefit?
I heard multiple times from different UK government officials that the UK did really good with Covid-19 vaccine rollout because the UK left the EU.
Ultimately the UK had a headstart in the vaccine ...
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Is UK vaccine rollout really a Brexit benefit?
Yes, because the UK could roll out vaccines to its citizens ahead of any EU-wide scheme. BBC News article.
The EU tried to implement an EU-wide vaccination policy. But it was so slow that individual ...
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To what extent are financial services in this last Brexit deal (trade agreement)?
Although the trade deal itself does not specifically mention access for Financial Services as there was no time during the Brexit negotiations for this, it does allow for an 'Equivalence' deal to be ...
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Has any other act of parliament compelled the Government or PM to take action like the Benn Act does?
The Modern Slavery Act 2015 section 4 requires:
The Secretary of State must, after consulting the Scottish Ministers and the Department of Justice in Northern Ireland, appoint a person as the ...
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Have there been any elections which were rendered completely irrelevant by later events?
All Russian Constituent Assembly were supposed to be democratically elected government of Russian Republic, but they were immediately dispersed by Bolshevik Communist Party in October 1917, as they ...
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Have there been any elections which were rendered completely irrelevant by later events?
In many U.S. states, judges race "retention elections" and if the voters vote "yes" the judge gets to serve another term, and if the voters vote "no", the judge's term ...
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