The Guardian Article Rating

UK will not accept EU offer to join pan-European customs union 'at present time', minister says - UK politics live

  • Bias Rating

    8% Center

  • Reliability

    40% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    8% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

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Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Economists argue that an obvious move to promote growth would be to have close trade links with the EU.
53% : He is at Davos and, in an interview with the BBC's economics editor Faisal Islam, he said that a "pan-European [customs] area is something we could consider" as part of "reset" discussions between the UK and EU.
50% : And today a minister has ruled out an EU proposal for the UK to join, not the customs union, but a customs union with the EU.
37% : But the government has ruled out rejoining the single market or the custom union (let alone rejoining the EU proper - which is still largely a taboo proposal in most parts of UK politics).

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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