Business and Economics

The government said employers should not rely on ‘foreign’ workers and focus on training our domestic work force.

"I can't believe as a life-long Conservative voter, I stand at the moment thinking I would be very, very unlikely to vote Conservative again at the moment," one Brexit-voting farmer bemoaned.

“Economically the deal remains a poor substitute for the trade lost with European markets due to Brexit."

“Staying on point now that Dominic Cummings has gone #TheTwoHelmets," a Labour councillor has said.

"I don’t think they kept their promises before Brexit, they promised things to all men. It’s a huge betrayal," one farmer told TLE.

Former Brexit secretary, David Davis, worked for Tate & Lyle Sugars for almost two decades.

UK next? The project in Honduras entails a private city where big corporations will be able to connect and carry out transactions using new technologies such as cryptocurrency – without interference from the government.

“We are taking back control, as Boris would say, but when we are taking back control, we are actually deliberately throttling our own businesses because we know the thing we haven’t got control of is labour."

It comes as finance ministers from the G7, including the UK, have agreed on making big corporations pay more tax, but Amazon may escape the measures.