All news on the topic: Red tape

George Shipley doesn’t mince his words. The 34-year-old acting skipper stands on the quayside at Brixham harbour, the smell of salt and diesel thick in the early morning air, white plastic boxes stacked behind him and the Devon hills rising beyond the trawlers, and says what every fisherman here is thinking.

Ministers will be allowed to approve more policies without consulting the rest of the Cabinet under Labour’s plans for an "exorcism" of red tape in Whitehall.

The high charges are also holding them back from hiring new staff, and cutting the price of their goods and services, according to research

Phil and Anne Bulman, both 71, were forced to swap the Costa Blanca for South East England after run-ins with robbers, cowboy builders and red tape

Under a deal to restore power-sharing in Northern Ireland, ministers also will be given training on how to talk about the Good Friday Agreement after they displayed ignorance

Post-Brexit red tape is making school exchange programmes to Europe more difficult, prompting the need for a scheme that could see British pupils able to visit Germany without a passport

Liz Truss said the document, which includes recommendations to cut the minimum wage and brands paid holidays and redundancy cash drags on growth, was "an important part of the debate"

One Utah man's display of skeletons in camp chairs watching a fellow skeleton pole dance has been deemed unaccepatble by officials and residents alike. Others are fighting back and adding more and more to the display in Grantsville's hottest controversy.

After starring in more than 160 films over seventy years, Sir Michael Caine has announced his retirement from acting today

Wind farms are set to produce electricity much cheaper than the regular wholesale price even with high inflation but red tape is expected to block new projects

Speaking at the Trade Unlocked conference, Shadow International Trade Secretary Nick Thomas-Symonds gave new details of how the party would amend the deal struck by Boris Johnson

It marks yet another Tory broken promise after the party pledged in its 2019 election manifesto it would strike a deal by the end of 2022

The Labour frontbencher has written to the Honours and Appointments Secretariat calling on officials to 'set aside any traditional timescales between honours' to honour the rugby league legends

Claudio Sesia poured 44lbs of a foul mixture of cow excrement and water onto a police station front desk as he was warned "don't you dare" by a bemused administrator in Australia's Queensland state

Professional driver Paul O'Flynn was refused permission to build a driveway at his home in Morley, West Yorkshire, after the council said it was too dangerous - despite six other neighbours having one

Gary Brooking, 63, was told he needs to leave the two-bedroom council home in Tilehurst, Berkshire so another family can move in - Mr Brooking cared for his mum for the last 13 years

International campaign group Best for Britain has organised a conference in Birmingham to hear ideas which could influence parties' manifestos for the next election

The UK has signed its biggest post-Brexit trade agreement, joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership - but critics say the pact is worth only 0.08% of GDP

A study found that one in nine micro businesses fear they will be forced to close this year. Several owners tell us what they need to hear from the Chancellor

The Ministry of Defence holds the results of Cold War blood tests, but won't share it with veterans

The images of the 'Baghdad Phantom UAP' was shared by Jeremy Corbell and George Knapp on their podcast 'Weaponized', and it shows a cylindrical object moving at speed at a low altitude

Sunak negotiating in good faith promises results beyond the bad faith of Johnson, sweeping away many red tape barriers down an Irish Sea border agreed by the ex-PM

A year on from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Mirror speaks to three British hosts and the Ukrainian families they’ve invited into their homes

Nuclear veterans will get their long-awaited medal this summer - but Rishi Sunak still refuses to fulfil his promise to meet them, says Fleet Street Fox

It makes no difference for Rishi Sunak to say he's fixed it, says Fleet Street Fox. It's under warranty and we want our GDP back