Brexit news live: Latest updates as EU firms refuse UK deliveries

eBay has informed its UK sellers that in mild of “ongoing disruptions on logistic routes between the UK and Europe or remainder of world, we wish to inform you that vendor protections for cross-border transactions are prolonged till 20 January 2021”. 

It means the net market will mechanically take away late supply counts in addition to any associated damaging or impartial suggestions obtained on these sorts of transactions between 7 December and 20 January 2021.

The advantages of the transfer are:

– A vendor’s Merchandise Not Acquired (INR) rely shall be mechanically eliminated if the vendor uploaded legitimate monitoring earlier than the supply was scanned for cross border transactions between 7 December and 20 January 2021.

– If a vendor has to cancel a cross-border transaction, eBay will take away these defects from the vendor’s efficiency analysis and any associated Unfavourable or Impartial suggestions obtained.

– Removals of damaging or impartial suggestions shall be eliminated as rapidly as potential, however there could also be a brief time period when this data seems in a vendor’s account.

The announcement comes amid rising issues that Brexit could completely injury the convenience with which UK residents can order items from the EU.

England is about to realize 10 MPs, whereas Wales will lose eight and Scotland is about to lose two, beneath plans to shake-up the UK’s electoral map.  

The assessment’s goal – to be accomplished in 2023 – is to make voter populations in every constituency extra equal, which might see England come out with 543 MPs, Wales 32 and Scotland 57.

Northern Eire will proceed to have 18 MPs sitting within the Home of Commons however among the present boundaries might shift as a part of the plans, in keeping with the area’s boundary fee.

The Workplace for Nationwide Statistics (ONS) on Tuesday revealed the newest voter knowledge on which the assessment shall be based mostly on, with 47.5 million voters to be divided into 650 constituencies of between 69,724 and 77,062 individuals in dimension.

Some island constituencies, such because the Isle of Wight and the Isle of Anglesey, have been granted particular dispensation to be outdoors the inhabitants remit.

The brand new constituency boundaries will come into pressure in 2023 and shall be used on the subsequent normal election a 12 months later.

Tim Bowden, secretary to the Boundary Fee for England, mentioned: “Right now marks the beginning of our work to assessment the constituency boundaries in England.

“Parliament has set strict guidelines on higher equality of voters dimension between the brand new constituencies — these guidelines and the rise in whole variety of constituencies in England imply that there’s more likely to be a big diploma of change throughout the nation.”

The ONS inhabitants outcomes imply areas in England will see shifts within the variety of MPs representing them.

London is scheduled to realize two MPs, growing to 75 in whole, whereas the northwest and northeast – two areas the place Boris Johnson noticed good points at Labour’s expense in 2019 – will each see their illustration lowered by two, in a transfer that might show damaging to the PM’s self-titled “blue wall”. 

The discount in seats in Wales might additionally harm Mr Johnson’s Commons majority.

The southeast and southwest, nevertheless – two areas the place the Conservatives historically ballot properly – will each have new seats created.

Virtually €6bn (£5.4bn) of EU share dealing moved out of the Metropolis of London to monetary centres in Europe on Monday, in keeping with the FT.

“It’s been a rare day. Shifting liquidity is among the hardest issues to do. It’s not ‘Massive Bang’ – it’s ‘Bang and It’s Gone’. The Metropolis has misplaced its European share enterprise,” mentioned the chief govt of Aquis Alternate, Alasdair Haynes, chief.

The Greatest for Britain group mentioned: “This can be a massively worrying lack of enterprise, all of the extra as a result of … it’s probably everlasting.”  

9 months after the aviation trade known as for testing to cut back the unfold of the Covid, the federal government is about to make a damaging take a look at end result obligatory for travellers coming to the UK.

However The Impartial understands that polymerase chain response (PCR) assessments taken not more than 72 hours earlier than departure to the UK could also be necessary just for foreigners – some authorities figures are urgent for British nationals and people resident within the UK to be exempt.

Our journey correspondent Simon Calder has all the small print:

First minister Nicola Sturgeon mentioned she wouldn’t enable Donald Trump into Scotland to flee Joe Biden’s inauguration later this month (there was some hypothesis the outgoing president will head for Turnberry).

“We’re not permitting individuals to come back into Scotland … and that may apply to him in addition to anyone,” she mentioned. “Coming to play golf shouldn’t be what I’d name an important objective.”

The SNP chief joked that she expects Trump’s “fast journey plan is to exit the White Home” – including that she had “little doubt dug a number of deep holes for myself”.

Extra now on EU corporations refusing to ship to the UK due to the additional paperwork and prices. College of Essex’s accounting professor Prem Sikka mentioned: “Brexiteers by no means informed individuals about this. There have been no banners on buses.”

It comes as some worldwide delivery corporations utilized by all types of companies, together with TNT and Federal Specific, have positioned further costs on deliveries between the UK and the EU.

TNT mentioned there could be a surcharge of £4.31 on shipments between the 2 attributable to investments the corporate has made in changes and “value of customs clearance”.

The federal government’s dealing with of colleges through the Covid disaster has been denounced as a “big shambles” by senior Tory MP Robert Halfon – chair of the training committee.

“What I would like now to occur is for the federal government to make use of this time to roll out a vaccine programme for lecturers and assist workers, get the testing regime working, set out an academic route map out of coronavirus and a long-term plan for training and abilities,” mentioned Halfon.

Schooling secretary Gavin Williamson was at this time writing to regulator Ofqual to tell them GCSEs and A-levels should not happen and ask them to attract up different preparations for this summer time.

Williamson is now dealing with calls for for the cancellation of vocational and technical exams attributable to happen by the remainder of January. The Affiliation of Faculties mentioned it was “merely untenable” for the exams to go forward as deliberate.

In information from Westminster, a Tory minister has been branded “out of contact” after suggesting individuals to drown the sorrows of 2020 with a £170 bottle of champagne. Housing minister Christopher Pincher mentioned Krug Grand Cru Cuvee is “best for lifting the spirit and lighting up a darkening winter afternoon”.

Bethany Dawson has the total story:

Rob Merrick has extra on the PM’s cancelled journey to India. The transfer will heighten criticism that Johnson was unprepared for the dramatic surge in infections – triggering a 3rd – when the journey was organized for later this month, he writes. At one time, Brexit supporters earmarked India as among the many main new commerce offers they hoped to safe as soon as the UK had left the EU.

The Unite union has known as on French automaker PSA to construct electrified autos at its Vauxhall-Opel automotive manufacturing facility within the UK following the Brexit commerce deal.

Peugeot guardian firm PSA purchased Opel, which trades as Vauxhall in Britain, in 2017, and mentioned in 2019 that future funding within the northern English Ellesmere Port plant would rely upon the ultimate phrases of Britain’s exit.

“We name upon PSA to have a look at a longer-term plan to construct electrified autos at each Luton and Ellesmere Port with future regulatory and legislative adjustments in thoughts,” mentioned Unite nationwide officer for automotive industries Des Quinn.