Brexit. Why do Brits want Out of the EU?

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It is understood a number of LSE academics specialising in EU affairs have been briefing the foreign office on Brexit issues, but the school has received an email informing it that submissions from non-UK citizens would no longer be accepted.

One of the group, who subsequently received notes from their departments telling them of the instruction, is understood to be a dual national, with citizenship of both the UK and another EU member state.

The Foreign Office was said to be concerned about the risk of sensitive material being exposed as article 50 negotiations over Britain’s exit from the EU, and subsequent talks on its future trade and other relations with the bloc, get under way.

But Steve Peers, a professor of EU law at the University of Essex who has advised the government on EU legal questions, said it should be “perfectly possible to get useful input from some of the best-qualified people in the country” without anything sensitive being revealed. “I don’t really get the security or sensitivity argument,” he said. “Whatever the reasons, this will come across as hostile, narrow and xenophobic.”
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All EU migrants living in the UK will be allowed to stay following Brexit after an amnesty for those who have not already received permanent residency rights, it has been reported.

More than 80 per cent of the 3.6 million EU citizens who currently live in the UK will already have the right to remain by the time Britain leaves the European Union, according to official research.

The Home Office has learned that five in six EU migrants could not be legally deported and those who can will be offered an amnesty and be offered the opportunity to stay, the Telegraph has reported.

Current rules state that you receive permanent residency rights once you have lived in the UK for more than five years, which almost 2.9 million would have done by 2019 – the year Britain is set to leave the EU.

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The Foreign Office continues to deny telling London School of Economics academics they cannot give advice on 'sensitive trade relations'
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LSE interim director Professor Julia Black said in an internal school update memo that the world-renowned university had chosen to ignore the ban and stand by its academic principles of independence.

She said: “You may have seen reports in the media that the Foreign Office have advised us that they will be issuing tenders to contract for advisory work, but that only UK nationals will be eligible to apply.

”Whilst the Foreign Office has long had a rule restricting the nationality of employees or secondees, the extension of the bar to advisory work seems to be new.

“However, it is for the Foreign Office to determine what its national security arrangements are, and their legality, not for us.
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A spokesman for the Foreign Office disputed the claim, insisting nothing had changed since the pro-Brexit referendum result. ... ...
”It has always been the case that anyone working in the FCO may require security clearance depending on the nature and duration of their work.

“Britain is an outward-looking nation and we will continue to take advice from the best and brightest minds, regardless of nationality.”

Dr Hagemann later tweeted: “I stand by fact there is new tone in UKgovt business& I had specific rejection re advisory work as not UK citizen

“But am proud to be part of outstanding experts [at LSE] who value diversity, integrity in addition to professional expertise.”

Country understood to believe bilateral talks could jeopardise EEA agreement and are ‘inappropriate’ before Britain exits EU

Norway has turned down a request from Britain to set up a formal joint taskforce aimed at preparing a post-Brexit free trade deal between the two countries, Norwegian media have reported.

The business daily Dagens Næringsliv said the international trade minister, Liam Fox, asked Norway’s trade and industry minster, Monica Mæland, to form a bilateral trade working group at a meeting between the two ministers and their officials on 14 September.

A brief rally in the pound was quickly reversed on Wednesday after the government refused to make tariff-free access to the European Union’s single market a red line in Brexit negotiations with Brussels.

Investors sold the pound after Brexit minister David Davis told MPs it was “not black or white” whether the UK would stay in the single market.

Sterling fell two cents to $1.21 on the currency markets in afternoon trading, reversing a jump to $1.23 overnight that followed Theresa May’s concession for parliament to hold a debate on the government’s stance on talks with the EU. ... ... ...

The pound has tumbled since last week when in her party conference speech May appeared to put taking control over immigration above retaining access to the single market on the current tariff-free terms.

According to Bank of England figures, which compare the pound to a basket of major currencies, the UK’s currency has fallen to its lowest level since the 1970s, when records began.

The figures show that the value of sterling has fallen to below the levels seen in the aftermath of the 2008 banking crisis and the slump in the pound in 1992 that followed “Black Wednesday” and the UK’s exit from the European Union exchange rate mechanism.

Business leaders warned that without a rapid recovery in the pound’s value, the cost of imported goods in the shops would begin to rise, hitting household disposable incomes.
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