that is what happens, that is what i think i warned last week, the russians will get more desperate and do more and more horrendous things, but the reality is the ukrainian people are united as one to fight against this aggression. the other thing he is offering a support to the home office to help them process ukrainian visa applications abroad which seems to be having a few teething problems. there were two routes for ukrainians to get into the uk, the second has not been open, the sponsorship scheme where individuals, companies, organisations and communities can sponsor ukraine is to come to the uk. we think the levelling up secretary in charge of that is updating the cabinet on progress about establishing that scheme right now. the route that is open is the first scheme allowing ukrainian nationals to come and join family members who are already here. the
against this aggression. the other thing the mod is offering is support to the home office to help them process ukrainian visa applications abroad which seems to be having a few teething problems. there were two routes for ukrainians to get into the uk, the second has not been open, the sponsorship scheme where individuals, companies, organisations and communities can sponsor a ukrainian to come to the uk. we think the levelling up secretary michael gove in charge of that is updating the cabinet on progress about establishing that scheme right now. the route that is open is the first scheme allowing ukrainian nationals to come and join family members who are already here. the first batch of statistics of how that is going in the first four days of this team there were 9000 applications which led to 300 visas being granted. conservative mps are increasingly concerned that the system is not working fast enough. ben wallace echoed those concerns
on the whole, much happier than where we were, but i think to say that things are perfect, i don t think they will ever be. i think it is potentially something we have got to live with. some sharp export falls this year, such as in the car industry, could almost entirely be attributed to global pandemic factors rather than brexit. indeed, the signing of the trade deal helped confirm nissan s commitment to sunderland, unleashing new investments in electric vehicles. although the first year of global britain trading outside of the european union has avoided some of the dramatic worst case scenarios, there has been a clear hit in the trade figures that goes beyond what you would expect from the pandemic. and in individual sectors, it has been marked, such as the re export of clothing and the export of food and animal products they have gone well beyond teething problems. and for the government, they have played this down but privately, they say, british exporters have got to get used to
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