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'One of our best deals ever' Jacinda Ardern hails New Zealand trade agreement with UK
‘Groundbreaking’ deal criticised by UK farmers is part of 10-year plan to pivot to Indo-Pacific

UK strikes trade deal with New Zealand – but it may add nothing to GDP

Tariffs as high as 10% are set to be removed on a range of UK goods, including clothes, buses, ships and bulldozers. The price of New Zealand-produced sauvignon blanc, manuka honey and kiwifruit should dip after 16 months of talks.

Trade between the UK and New Zealand is now worth £2.3bn a year, and the government said that would rise as the deal would make it easier for smaller businesses to break into the New Zealand market – as well as remove barriers for advanced tech and services companies

It follows the recent trade agreement struck with Japan and the deal struck in principle with Australia. The focus on the region is part of Johnson’s 10-year plan to tilt the UK’s foreign policy focus towards the Indo-Pacific, strengthening the alliance and position of democratic countries in the region to make them more competitive against China.

Spanish rail reveals plans for high-speed London to Paris link

The Spanish company noted that Eurotunnel’s Paris-London route was used by 9 million travellers in 2019, and that 7 million of them had taken the Eurostar passenger train, which connects the two cities in about two hours and 12 minutes.

Immigration and asylum

Person dies attempting Channel crossing to reach UK
French authorities say person was found dead and two others treated for hypothermia on beach near Calais

French authorities said more than 400 people were rescued during a French-led rescue operation in the Strait of Calais on Tuesday night and into Wednesday.

UK authorities on Tuesday rescued or intercepted 456 people who had navigated busy shipping lanes from France in small boats.

According to data compiled by the PA Media news agency, before that at least 19,756 people had reached the UK so far this year, bringing the total to more than 20,200.

This is more than double the total for the whole of 2020.

In the past fortnight, at least five people have died attempting to make the perilous crossing – and they are only the ones we know about. It is clear more will wash up in the near future if the French do not deploy extra resources to ensure that migrants do not enter the water.

On Tuesday alone, there were incidents where British patrols saved migrants either from going overboard or rescued them from the water. One frustrated UK Home Office “insider” claimed that the French “don’t give a s**t about the growing death toll.”

More than 500 migrants cross English Channel as Border Force are called to 16 incidents while French authorities stop another 307 trying to make the trip all in ONE day