There is the EU memory of the UK as the awkward odd one, always demanding exemptions and rebates, constantly complaining about Commission overreach. Then there is the conflicting recollection of the...

Introduction Six months after leaving the EU’s Customs Union and Single Market, and five years after the referendum to leave the EU, the UK’s trade policy is fully operational. Yet there is...

The UK has formally declared the intention to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, also known as the CPTPP trade agreement. After Brexit, the UK government...

For the UK government January 2021 meant finally starting the implementation stage of Global Britain. Freed from EU membership and replicating EU trade deals the country could move on to new Free...

After a rather strange few days in which the UK government threatened to halt EU trade talks because of conditions either already agreed, such as intensification of talks, or never going to be, a...

The Brexit saga keeps going, now reaching the point where the UK government has stated that the Withdrawal Agreement reached in October, which became an ‘oven ready deal’ helping the...

We are around halfway through the time allocated for UK-EU future relationship talks. It is four months since the UK finally left the EU, and four months from here take us to the end of September, by...

I’m not a coronavirus expert. Trade, economics and politics is my field. I had to look up the spelling of epidemiologist for this article and I’m definitely not one. But just as trade deals are...

Introduction The result of the UK General Election means that the UK will leave the EU at the end of January 2020, ending at least four years of uncertainty on that particular question. The wider...

Yet again Brexit has been delayed. The EU has reluctantly granted another extension, this time of three months. It remains uncertain as to what might happen during this time, there may be an election...