Scrap the Tariffs on textiles from Sri Lanka, Thailand and other flood-hit areas

Boris Johnson’s column out today deplores the high rates of tariffs on textiles and calls on Brussels to address the continuing injustice to Sri Lankan undergarments in particular:

The cuts could be spread, over time, to all the third world, and in the meantime they would stop jobs in Sri Lanka being relocated elsewhere, and encourage local industry.

All it would take is one meeting in Brussels, and less than three minutes to do

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Boris’s occasional column in The Henley Standard

TIME TO GET MILITANT WITH THE RAILWAY BUREAUCRATS (and other bureaucrats…)

As I never tire of saying, the trouble with regulation…

I felt very lucky the other day to host an event for Sue Ryder Care in the House of Commons

Nirvana Natural shampoo …is the victim of what I believe is an injustice

A woman came to see me about a year ago in quite a state, because she had been defrauded of £60,000

Let us all hope, as we look ahead to an election year that Britain will be blessed by intelligent argument that is genuinely dedicated to the improvement of the country

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