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The government’s bill to partially ignore the legally binding Brexit withdrawal agreement has passed a Commons vote with a comfortable majority, but also a large number of high-ranking conservatives refusing to lend their support. Parliamentarians voted by a majority of 77 to pass the internal market bill that would allow the government to override key elements of the Northern Ireland protocol that Boris Johnson agreed to with the EU.
Only two Conservative MPs voted directly against the bill: Andrew Percy and Sir Roger Gale, the latter later saying that Britain should “obey international law. I think the word of the UK is their bond and I think this is damaging our international reputation for honesty and openness. “30 other Conservatives abstained, although this could be for a number of reasons, including former Chancellor Sajid Javid and former Attorneys General Geoffrey Cox and Jeremy Wright.
One abstainer, Sir Charles Walker, called the violation of international law “profoundly non-conservative” and, alluding to divisions within the party, warned: “If you keep hitting a dog, don’t be surprised when it bites you.”
The bill now moves to committee stage and a showdown looms over an amendment tabled by Bob Neill, the conservative chairman of the justice selection committee, who seeks to grant parliament a veto if ministers attempt to use their powers under the bill to annul the divorce agreement between the UK and the EU. These are some of the MPs who could make things uncomfortable for Johnson. This morning, former UK Ambassador to the US Kim Darroch says the bill is “the most amazing thing I can remember of my entire public service career” and threatens to damage Britain’s prospects for trade deals with United States and the EU. “It puts future international agreements at risk, if people think the British are just going to say: we didn’t like this after reflection, and we’d like to rewrite this part unilaterally.”
Alcohol drunkenness in the confinement – An almost doubling in the number of high-risk drinkers during the lockdown has led to warnings that addiction services in England are struggling to cope. The Royal College of Psychiatrists found that the prevalence of people who drink at higher risk was almost a fifth (19%) in June, which is equivalent to more than 8.4 million people and an increase of around 4.8 million four months earlier. . The college calls on ministers to reverse the cuts and help local authorities work to invest £ 374 million in adult services to address the increased need for treatment.
Britain’s anxiety attack – Anxiety has tripled among young adults in the UK over the past decade, according to a study, and now affects 30% of women aged 18-24, while overall among men and women under the age of 24. 55 years. The financial crisis, austerity, Brexit, climate change and social media are implicated, and there is a clear generational divide: anxiety does not change among people 55 and over, who tend to be less affected than older people. young people due to the great uncertainties in areas such as housing and job prospects. Brian Dow, deputy executive director of the charity Rethink Mental Illness, said: “If we want to reverse this trend and prevent a problem from becoming a crisis, the social contract that we provide to young people must have a better set of terms and conditions. “
‘Threshold of the new era’ – Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, will be at the White House today to sign agreements with Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates that establish open business, direct flights and diplomatic relations. Israel has only made peace agreements before with Egypt and Jordan. Netanyahu has hailed it as “the threshold of a new era” as Israel draws closer to some Arab states, largely due to a shared enmity toward Iran. But the agreements have also been dismissed as a made-up show by the Trump administration, as both Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates already had extensive informal ties with Israel.
Home caregivers earn back pay – Ten homecare workers have been awarded an average of £ 10,000 each in back pay after a court ruled that it was illegal not to pay them for travel time between clients’ homes. The court, in a case brought by the Unison union, ruled that up to 60 minutes of travel and waiting time between appointments must be paid to caregivers, who worked 14 hours a day in their jobs caring for the elderly and disabled, but were effectively receiving less than the minimum wage. Unison said the ruling establishing how workers calculated how much they were owed, in part through the use of Google maps and public transportation apps, would help workers in similar situations challenge their employers for underpayment.
Carbon removed from search results – Google and Facebook are becoming carbon neutral businesses, joining competitors Apple and Microsoft in a pledge not to put excess carbon into the atmosphere. Google says it has managed to retroactively offset all the carbon it has emitted, since its founding in 1998. It has also pledged to run exclusively on renewable energy by 2030. Facebook says it will rely 100% on renewable energy this year and is committed to net zero emissions for its entire “value chain” by 2030, including suppliers and users. Amazon is a bit behind its peers with a net zero carbon emissions plan by 2040 and 100% renewable electricity use by 2030.
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Sport
Jofra Archer insists that England has not forgotten the spirit of the Black Lives Matter movement and that Michael Holding had not investigated when criticizing the team’s decision to stop kneeling. Dave Brailsford’s bid for the Tour de France team has failed, as the 2018 winner of the Large loopGeraint Thomas showed that he had returned to his best level with second place overall in the prestigious Tirreno-Adriatico stage race in Italy. UK Athletics plans to eliminate all of its major events staff responsible for organizing the prestigious Diamond League meetings and also intends to downsize its anti-doping team, The Guardian can reveal.
Owen Farrell is preparing his Saracen teammates for the Champions Cup quarter-finals against Leinster by adopting the role of Johnny Sexton in practice this week. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has confirmed that quarantine rules will be relaxed to allow Australia enough time to prepare for next month’s two Bledisloe Cup matches against the All Blacks. Yorkshire was left without four senior players, including captain David Willey, for their T20 Blast match against Lancashire at Headingley due to a coronavirus-related issue. And Novak Djokovic says he has accepted his US Open flaw, but understands that he will stay with him for a long time as he prepares to return to competition this week at the Italian Open.
Deal
Asian stocks have risen to gains while the dollar has fallen, with investor sentiment backed by Chinese data and optimism about Covid-19 vaccines. Chinese blue chips rose 0.4%, driven by data showing that China’s industrial production increased 5.6% in August from a year earlier, expanding for the fifth consecutive month. In market movements, Japan’s Nikkei has fallen, while South Korea and Australia have made small gains. The FTSE is flat ahead of the open, while the pound is worth $ 1,285 and € 1,081 at time of writing.
The papers
Good job from me he titles his splash “Bruising Commons victory for Johnson” after the passage of the Internal Markets Act, but not without a shower of shame. the Guardian The final edit has that as “Bill passes but PM faces a new confrontation”. Our printed splash is “Number 10 is warned of 7,000 trucks caught in post-Brexit chaos.” Confidential government documents produced by the Protocol and Borders Delivery Group and seen by The Guardian predict the scale of the disruption, including possible two-day delays to cross into the EU and thousands of passengers waiting an additional two hours for Eurostar trains.
The evidence shortage also appears in The Guardian and elsewhere. “Crisis in hospitals with health workers who cannot access tests,” says the Telegraph. “There is no trace of a test” reports the Meter while the Times says that “virus tests sell out as labs grapple with demand.”
“For the sake of 35,000 lives we must act now” implores the Quick, in reference to delays in cancer treatment. “Britain is drinking again,” says the Mail in reference to these findings. It’s “unbelievable,” says the working-class Mirror that “families are forbidden to meet together” and “neighbors are told to spy on each other,” but “don’t worry, the government says you can still go to shoot grouse with 29 friends. ”A younger Boris Johnson is pictured wearing tweed and grabbing a couple of birds. FOOT is on TikTok, saying the proposed partnership with Oracle “faces hurdle from the White House for approval.”
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