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Northern Ireland’s first minister said the European Union’s promise of legal action over the UK extending grace periods for trade showed its priority was protecting the trading bloc, not the Belfast peace agreement. “What they’re only interested in is protecting their bloc, they’re not interested, as they claim to be, in protecting the Belfast agreement,” Arlene Foster told BBC radio on Friday. “If they were, they would not be taking the action that they’re taking a present.” The European Union said on Wednesday it would take legal action after the British government unilaterally extended a grace period for checks on…

Jürgen Klopp has told Liverpool’s players to “fight harder” and played down Mohamed Salah’s reaction to being substituted during the defeat against Chelsea on Thursday. The Premier League champions endured another blow in the race to qualify for the Champions League and have now lost five consecutive home games for the first time in their 129‑year history. Liverpool face a huge battle to save their season after they faltered again at Anfield, dropping into seventh place after succumbing to a fine first‑half goal from Mason Mount. Klopp’s side struggled throughout and are four points behind Chelsea, who climbed back into fourth place continuing their…

Biden is the first president in at least a century not to hold a solo press briefing by day 43 White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Wednesday declined to outline when President Joe Biden will hold his first solo press conference, despite mounting pressure and calls for him to do so. More than 40 days into his presidency, Biden has come under increasing media spotlight for not holding a traditional open news conference—the longest stretch of any president over the last century. In contrast, his 15 predecessors held solo press briefings within 33 days of their respective presidencies. Former president Donald Trump took…

The European Union promised legal action on Wednesday after the British government unilaterally extended a grace period for checks on food imports to Northern Ireland, a move Brussels said violated terms of Britain’s divorce deal. Since it left the EU last year, Britain’s relations with the bloc have soured, with both sides accusing the other of acting in bad faith in relation to part of their trade agreement that covers goods movements to Northern Ireland. The British government extended a grace period for some checks on agricultural and food products imported by retailers to Northern Ireland until Oct. 1 in…

Kelechi Iheanacho’s sweetly struck equaliser illuminated an oddity of a match: open yet lacking copious goalscoring chances, much of the action occurring between the two boxes. By the final whistle Burnley had 29 points, six clear of Fulham in the final relegation position, while Leicester had reached 50, six better than fifth-placed Chelsea in the race for a Champions League berth. Burnley’s Sean Dyche and Leicester’s Brendan Rodgers would have preferred victory but at this stage of the campaign were content with the draw and they now move on. Dyche was right to identify Kasper Schmeichel’s display. “Their keeper was arguably man…

The Chancellor used the Budget to confirm the locations of the ‘special economic zones’ that were first announced in the Tories’ 2019 election manifesto. East Midlands Airport, the Suffolk ports of Felixstowe and Harwich, the Humber region in Yorkshire, the Liverpool City Region, Plymouth in Devon, the Solent in Hampshire, the Thames near London and Teesside in the North East have all been chosen. The freeport model works by allowing companies to import goods tariff-free and only paying once it is sold into the domestic market, or exporting the final goods without paying UK tariffs. Supporters say they can stimulate…

Nicola Sturgeon’s career remains on the line today after she failed to answer critical questions over her handling of complaints against Alex Salmond at a marathon eight-hour grilling in the Scottish Parliament yesterday. Her allies insisted she had ‘dismantled’ the claims and ‘conspiracy theories’ made by Mr Salmond and opposition parties when she gave evidence before MSPs. But the First Minister still faces a vote of no confidence in her leadership, with critics insisting she said nothing to change their view that she had misled the Scottish parliament over what she knew and when. Holyrood’s Tories rubbished her ‘litany of lies’…

An ‘avalanche’ of people have claimed their loved one’s cause of death was recorded as Covid despite them never having been exposed to an outbreak or testing positive to the virus. Grieving families are calling for an inquiry into how deaths have been recorded during the pandemic amid claims their loved ones did not die of Covid. Dozens of families are said to have raised concerns after Bel Mooney revealed that her father, 99, who suffered from dementia and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, had his death recorded as coronavirus. Bel claimed her dad had passed three Covid-19 tests but was nonetheless…

Britain’s finance minister Rishi Sunak will promise on Wednesday to do “whatever it takes”, including a five-month extension of a huge jobs rescue plan, to steer the economy through what he hopes will be the final months of COVID restrictions. Sunak has already racked up Britain’s highest borrowing since World War Two and he will turn to the bond markets again in his budget speech, saying the task of fixing the public finances will only begin once a recovery is in sight. “We’re using the full measure of our fiscal firepower to protect the jobs and livelihoods of the British…

Lawyers warned the Scottish Government was heading for defeat in its court battle with Alex Salmond more than three months before it lost the case. In a major development which piles more pressure on Nicola Sturgeon, it emerged yesterday that they warned in September 2018 there was ‘a real risk that the court may be persuaded by the petitioner’s case in respect of the ground of challenge based on ‘procedural unfairness’.’ Legal advisers then informed officials on October 31 of a ‘very real problem’ which eventually led to Mr Salmond winning the case. An ‘urgent note’ issued by senior counsel highlighted…