This is an excellent development, it does look like that behind the scenes the Government are indeed fulfilling the wishes of the majority of the electorate, (those that voted anyway).
Britain is working on plans to withdraw from three major EU research programmes, which would see Brussels denied up to £15 billion funding.
Amid deteriorating relations with Brussels, the Government has commenced work on domestic alternatives should the UK pull the plug on Horizon Europe, Copernicus and Euratom.
They are the bloc’s €90 billion (£77 billion) flagship scientific, satellite, and nuclear programmes, which the UK agreed to remain part of when it signed the Brexit trade deal last year.
It suggests that ministers are actively drawing up measures to mitigate retaliatory options open to the European Commission, should Britain be forced to trigger Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol in the coming weeks.
The UK is set to contribute £2.1 billion annually to the seven-year Horizon programme in order to maintain access for British scientists and researchers to pan-European projects and funding.
It has also secured access to the Copernicus Earth observation programme, deemed vital to the UK space sector, while reaching a separate deal on continued involvement in the Euratom nuclear research programme.
However, entry has been stalled by the EU despite other non-member states such as Norway already receiving formal association status – meaning British institutions are missing out on research and funding opportunities.
Now a leaked government paper, circulated at a Brexit Cabinet sub-committee this week, has revealed that ministers believe the delay is a deliberate bid by Brussels to create leverage in the talks over Northern Ireland, and that the programmes will soon stop representing value for money.
After the first leg, you get shunted into an airside holding pen at Changi and thence on to the long haul 14 hr leg to LHR. The slick organisation continues throughout that flight within even a controlled disembarkation to aid social distancing on the way out. 
Down here when crossing borders all you need is a valid vaccination certificate or a negative PCR test taken within 72 hours of travel. No quarantine or self isolation and no extra tests on days one,five and ten. And if you are crossing borders regularly you can get a 14 day pass. 
