Hospitals in England are struggling to recruit staff for tens of thousands of nursing vacancies amid a mounting workforce crisis in the country.

“From today, most EU, EEA, and Swiss citizens will need a valid passport to enter the UK,” the Home Office said.

France has accused Britain of playing politics with post-Brexit fishing rights after London and the Channel Island of Jersey refused dozens of French fishing boats a licence to operate in their territorial waters.

This episode looks at fishing rights for EU boats in UK waters as a key stumbling block to negotiations for a Brexit trade accord between London and Brussels, which threatened to sink the deal, having resurfaced again.

Brexit has propelled the UK not towards the new golden age promised by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, but instead towards the door marked failed state.

British PM Boris Johnson has failed to make inroads in landing a major post-Brexit free trade deal worth tens of billions of pounds with the US after what seemed like a successful trip to the White House to meet with President Joe Biden.

The European Commission says major differences with Britain relating to elements of Brexit must be settled before the end of December.

The Northern Ireland protocol agreed upon by the UK and EU to avoid trade problems has become a problem itself. Now the UK is threatening to unilaterally suspend it.

Penny Mordaunt, the Paymaster General, says the government has decided to delay some elements of the new controls.

Britain is set to lose its status as one of Germany’s top ten trading partners due to Brexit.