Business and Economics

“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.

Two weeks ago a 100,000-kronor shipment of crisps, chocolate and tea was nearly destroyed after being incorrectly labelled.

A statement on the Norwegian Government website said: “Although the agreement ensures a predictable framework for Norwegian investors, exporters and services suppliers, it is not as comprehensive as the EEA-agreement."

The newspaper reported: “In the almost five years following the referendum on our EU membership, eurocrats have forced banks to move thousands of jobs and hundreds of billions of pounds in assets from the city to the continent."

Demand for workers rose at its fastest rate for more than 23 years, but the number of staff available to fill those jobs has declined dramatically.

“This means that employers can no longer hide behind the grey areas of UK law,” an employment layer said.

“In terms of British business, their attitude so far has been pretty much along the lines of ‘as long as we can make money we do’."

"While no one could have predicted the pandemic, the end of the EU transition period was entirely foreseeable."