Hammering out a “Son of CAP” has its challenges, but they are more technical than political – and can be resolved.
We have gained little, if any, benefit in terms of trade in return for the costs of membership.
Only a constitutional referendum lock, safeguarded by the Queen, can protect us from the left-wing coalition that could take power in 2020.
We have a head start but must keep updating the ways we defend creative products.
The current tax regime levies much higher taxes on one of Britain’s most important exports than on other forms of alcohol.
The sector is already a success story – this is a chance to make it even better.
Exports are up more than 70 per cent.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is not some sort of rogue state but a key ally of the UK. And if we don’t sell to them, our competitors will.
Cortés burnt his ships, thus making a retreat to Europe impossible – and an advance into the New World the only way forward. May now faces her own Cortes Moment.
They can wring their hands one day and ring the bells the next – or vice-versa. After all, they rejoiced when sterling joined the ERM. We know how that one ended.
My new study for Civitas sets out a practicable alternative to an agreement at any cost.
How is the new Department for International Trade getting on?
Neither “Stop it or we’ll leave” nor “OK, we’ll comply but give us time” are good enough
If the Business Secretary wants to become the man for enterprise, he needs to challenge his own bureaucrats.
A joint response to our series on WTO by a former Director-General of that organisation and a former Australian Ambassador to it – via Policy Exchange.