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BRITAIN’S post-Brexit trade policy risks leaving the country without a plan for the major economic change that leaving the European Union is already starting to bring about, a report warned today.
Research by the Resolution Foundation and London School of Economics centre for economic performance found that the policy had been too focused on rushing through agreements at the expense of an underpinning economic strategy
The report suggests that EU withdrawal, combined with the impact of the pandemic, is set to cause “seismic shifts” in Britain’s economy over the coming decade, but they are being ignored in a debate too focused on the nuts and bolts of individual trade deals.
The biggest strike in global history is a template for our future. The silence tells you all you need to know, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT
As bus builder Alexander Dennis threatens Falkirk closure and Grangemouth faces ruthless shutdown by tax exile Jim Ratcliffe, RICHARD LEONARD MSP warns that global corporations must be resisted by a bold industrial strategy based on public ownership