Today on November 8 you can all buy the Xmas gift of the year, the new Zlatan Ibrahimovic biography: ‘I am football’.
Don’t miss it – it is sensational and co-written by my friend Mats Olsson.
This is a perfect Xmas gift for your friends about one of the best football players in the world.
The Prime Minister has formed five new business councils to advise on how to create the best business conditions in the UK after Brexit.
Each council will aim to meet three times a year, twice with the Prime Minister and once with a senior cabinet minister, to provide high-level advice and policy recommendations on the critical issues affecting business. The councils will also be a forum for government to share developing policy ideas and seek the views of members.
Co-chaired by two business leaders, each council will have around ten members representing core sectors of the UK economy, as well as a representative from the UK’s key business groups.
The Prime Minister, Theresa May, said:
The UK has always been one of the best places in the world to do business and is a leader in sectors from advanced manufacturing to the creative industries.
Brexit presents a huge opportunity to build a better, stronger economy for people all over the country.
So I’ve asked these new councils to advise us on the opportunities and challenges facing business as we shape the UK for the future.
The Prime Minister will welcome the co-chairs at Downing Street for the first time on Wednesday 7 November, where she will set out their objectives and they will discuss cross-cutting issues such as productivity and international investment. Going forward, the co-chairs will be responsible for preparing agendas, ensuring all members are briefed, and driving outcomes and progress on the key enabling opportunities for the businesses represented by their council:
• Jan du Plessis (Chairman, BT Group) and Carolyn McCall (CEO, ITV) will co-chair the Telecoms, Creative, Technology and Media Council. John Allan (President, CBI) and Stephen Martin (DG, IOD) will be the business group representatives
• Roger Carr (Chairman, BAE Systems) and Ian Davis (Chairman, Rolls Royce) will co-chair the Industrial, Infrastructure and Manufacturing Council. Stephen Phipson (CEO, EEF) will be the business group representative
• James Timpson (CEO, Timpson), Brent Hoberman (Co-Founder and Chairman, Founders Forum) and Emma Jones (Founder, Enterprise Nation) will co-chair the Small Business, Scale ups and Entrepreneurs Council. Mike Cherry (National Chairman, Federation of Small Business) will be the business group representative
• Paul Manduca (Chairman, Prudential) and Shriti Vadera (Chairman, Santander UK) will co-chair the Services – Financial, Professional and Education Services Council. Carolyn Fairbairn, (DG, CBI) will be the business group representative
• Dave Lewis (CEO, Tesco) and Emma Walmsley (CEO, GSK) will co-chair the Consumer, Retail and Life Sciences Council. Adam Marshall (DG, British Chambers of Commerce) will be the business group representative.
BBC today claims that there is a detailed plannonbhow to present the new Brwxit deal proposal. Naturally, there has to be a plan. Why wouldn’t there be? It have to be a priority to fimd the best possible way to avoid a UK Hard Brexit Crash-Out, right?
This is what BBC writes today.
Cabinet ministers strained to sound optimistic after cabinet today.
But notes passed to the BBC suggest that ministers are not where they wanted to be, and had even hoped to review the Brexit divorce deal today, and announce decisive progress this week.
The leaked plan appears to be a detailed blueprint of how Number 10 and the government hope to sell a deal to Parliament and to the public, with an almost day-by-day, blow-by-blow guide.
The notes say ministers would seek to claim “measured success”, a deal that is “good for everyone”, rather than claiming a victory with champagne corks popping.
It says there would be a major speech from Theresa May at a conference in the middle of the month, endorsements from foreign leaders and former foreign secretaries, and businesses coming on board.
And it then sketches out how the debates would run in Parliament with just under three weeks from cabinet sign-off to a final vote in the House of Commons.
A government spokesman described some of the note as “childish” and denied that it was an official document.
But it is clear that there are advanced discussions about how to get the deal through Parliament and convince the public if, and when, it is done.
Source: BBC
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