Unless Ministers get more grown-up in their rhetoric, they are going to set expectations at a level they cannot and should not meet.
The UK needs a fresh, robust template. Central to it should be a differentiation between strategic and non-strategic areas.
The commission has come up with an an innovative proposal for import policy.
There’s a case for empowering our courts to make a genocide ruling over the Uighars. But not for giving them a veto on trade deals in doing so.
If there’s a deal, some will argue for a closer relationship. Others will argue that, having come so far, we must go further in disentangling ourselves.
We deceived ourselves into thinking that as China grew richer, its political system would become more democratic.
Closing the transition period at the end of the year will cause even greater problems than necessary.
Plus: virtual conferences are the way of the future. America’s vice-presidential debate worked. And: Fox deserved better from his WTO campaign.
“It’s been an honour to take part in the selection process, and to make arguments on critical to the future of the trading system.”
I, for one, see this new Commission as further evidence that the Government will take expert advice that benefits farmers and consumers.
As a general set of principles for the UK global aims, we would do well to turn for inspiration and leadership to Churchill and Roosevelt’s Atlantic Charter.
When our companies build factories there, the expertise changes hands – and companies fall under the influence of the Communist Party.