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Isolation or Integration: Why the EU Free Trade Agreement the Brexiters want is not deliverable
In the race to be the next UK Prime Minister there is a strong narrative that the country’s future economic relationship with the EU can be simply solved. The EU backtracks on including the Irish...
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UK Brexit direction awaits new Conservative Party leader
A new series of everyone’s favourite UK show, Brexit, has kicked off in dramatic style with the resignation as Conservative Party leader, encouraged by her own party, of Prime Minister Theresa May....
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The next stages of UK trade policy
The context for UK trade policy in the future remains unclear. It is possible but unlikely that the UK will be leaving the EU with full future control at the end of March, but more likely that it...
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Assessing UK Trade Policy progress
Summary We see signs of progress in preparing the UK for greater trade policy freedom outside of EU membership, such as a few agreements reached to replace existing EU Free Trade Agreements, and a...
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Why the UK Government’s Brexit proposals were defeated in Parliament twice
There is a general rule of international negotiations, which is to make sure you have sufficient domestic support to ensure whatever you agree with other countries is ratified at home. You therefore...