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Speaking at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) conference, Labour leader Keir Starmer says the "days when low pay and cheap labour are part of the British way on growth must end". Starmer urges his audience of business owners and industry figures to begin weaning the "British economy off its immigration dependency" as he set out his party's vision for the country's economic future. SOUNDBITE
Having sacked her close ally Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng after a mini-budget which spooked the financial markets as a result of its unfunded tax cuts, United Kingdom Prime Minister Liz Truss confirms that her government will perform a drastic U-turn on its previous commitment not to raise corporation tax. "We need to act now to reassure the markets of our fiscal discipline. I have therefore decided to keep the increase in corporation tax that was planned by the previous government," the under-fire PM says. IMAGES
Prime Minister Boris Johnson promises Britain's full support for Afghanistan, to stop it becoming a haven for extremists, as cities fall to the Taliban after the withdrawal of Western forces. SOUNDBITE
Belgium, France, Germany, UK, Jan 30 (EFE/EPA).- (Camera: EFE/EPA Archive) The European Union has backed down on its plan to subject vaccine exports to checks on the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.FOOTAGE OF VACCINATION CENTRES IN FRANCE, GERMANY AND THE UK AND OF THE ASTRAZENECA HQ IN BRUSSELS.
Maidstone (UK), 22 June, EFE/EPA, (Camera: Neil Hall).- A growing number of British workers are turning their hand to fruit and vegetable picking amid a national campaign to salvage a summer harvest jeopardized by coronavirus travel restrictions. Widely-regarded as a strenuous job, with early starts and the ever-unpredictable British weather, manual fruit and vegetable harvesting has in recent years been dominated by migrant workers, many of whom travel from Eastern Europe to work on a seasonal basis. With only a third of those workers expected to make it over this year, the UK government has actively encouraged students and furloughed workers to fill the vacancies.FOOTAGE OF RASPBERRY PICKING IN THE UK AND STATEMENTS BY STEPHEN TAYLOR, MANAGING DIRECTOR OF WINTERWOOD FARMS, AMELIA RAWSTONE, STUDENT AND TEMPORARY WORKER AT THE FARM AND BECKY PAVEY, PHYSIOTHERAPIST AND FARM WORKER
The first official budget figures since Britain voted to leave the EU show a smaller-than-expected budget surplus. As post-referendum data continues to trickle in, attention is turning to what sort of access Britain will seek with its main trading partners in the EU. Kirsty Basset reports.
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