A £34 million Government Investigation into allegations of abuse of iraqi civilians by british troops is to be shut down. It follows a scathing report by mps which called the work of the Iraq Historic Allegations Team an unmitigated failure. Thousands of cases have been investigated but without a single prosecution. 90 of investigations into abuse allegations from afghanistan are also being dropped. Our Diplomatic Correspondent Caroline Hawley has the story. It is almost 14 years since british troops invaded iraq in the aftermath of the occupation, thousands of allegations of abuse were made against british soldiers. And a special team called ihat was set up to investigate them. The human rights lawyer phil shiner brought most of the claims but last week he was struck off after he had been found to be dishonest and to have paid agents to drum up business. Now the Ministry Of Defence is wrapping up the investigation early. This will be a huge relief to hundreds of british troops who ha
A £34 million Government Investigation into allegations of abuse of iraqi civilians by british troops is to be shut down. It follows a scathing report by mps which called the work of the Iraq Historic Allegations Team an unmitigated failure. Thousands of cases have been investigated but without a single prosecution. 90 of investigations into abuse allegations from afghanistan are also being dropped. Our Diplomatic Correspondent Caroline Hawley has the story. It is almost 14 years since british troops invaded iraq in the aftermath of the occupation, thousands of allegations of abuse were made against british soldiers. And a special team called ihat was set up to investigate them. The human rights lawyer phil shiner brought most of the claims but last week he was struck off after he had been found to be dishonest and to have paid agents to drum up business. Now the Ministry Of Defence is wrapping up the investigation early. This will be a huge relief to hundreds of british troops who ha
A £34 million Government Investigation into allegations of abuse of iraqi civilians by british troops is to be shut down. It follows a scathing report by mps which called the work of the Iraq Historic Allegations Team an unmitigated failure. Thousands of cases have been investigated but without a single prosecution. 90 of investigations into abuse allegations from afghanistan are also being dropped. Our Diplomatic Correspondent Caroline Hawley has the story. It is almost 14 years since british troops invaded iraq in the aftermath of the occupation, thousands of allegations of abuse were made against british soldiers. And a special team called ihat was set up to investigate them. The human rights lawyer phil shiner brought most of the claims but last week he was struck off after he had been found to be dishonest and to have paid agents to drum up business. Now the Ministry Of Defence is wrapping up the investigation early. This will be a huge relief to hundreds of british troops who ha
How much that ends up being, you guess. Thank you. I am talking about 60 billion. The foreign secretary borisjohnson said we should not give them anything. You cannot have a free divorce. If you decide to divorce you have to pay the price, it is as simple as that. It will be painful in the beginning but after that you have to realise you are exporting 50 of your exports to europe. It has to be a soft landing, it has to be flexibility from the british side to keep good relations with the ex wife, for examples. There should be pavement. At the same time there should be soft exit without problems because it is in the interests of britain to keep good relations with the eu. They are angry and upset and we should understand that. I am not sure about the divorce metaphor, it is like breaking upa the divorce metaphor, it is like breaking up a business. We have been pa rt of breaking up a business. We have been part of what Jeremy Clarkson has called the biggest budget in the world, a huge bud
the tunnel or on a boat. if you lay in custom on top of that, you have massive logistical issues. that is just one thing. labour costs and inflation, just because here we have decided not only we want to take up more of the labour force. 0n brexit, companies in the uk say their paperwork is killing their business. just how much paperwork is in this process? it s a dramatic amount. look at the customs process. added six, seven, eight, nine additional pieces of paper for one shipment. then you have inspections of the trucks. you saw at the border, miles of trucks are