Lee Rowley: The EEA/EFTA ‘safe harbour’ is not the Brexit Britain needs
The idea that we park the difficult challenges for a few years, by remaining in the EU in all but name, is for the birds.
The idea that we park the difficult challenges for a few years, by remaining in the EU in all but name, is for the birds.
Our treaty would be the most comprehensive ever. And it rests on mutual recognition, not top-down standardisation.
The UK should be willing to consider some flexibility in return for a trade deal – with Australia, with India, with Brazil and, yes, with the EU.
It would be a national humiliation for Britain to strike so one-sided a treaty with the world’s largest single market, let alone the shrinking EU.
Now we will find out if the EU really is seeking practical progress, or if it is cynically exploiting the issue as a way to seek leverage.
A rough guide to where some of the pro-Brexit players are on further proposals for Canada Plus Plus Plus – and No Deal.
We prefer Canada Plus Plus Plus. But a question could emerge over the next few months: is it a better option than an unmanageable No Deal – or even no Brexit at all?
During the weeks and months ahead, Conservative MPs will need to use their heads as well as their hearts to reach the Brexit winning line.
Anyone claiming the UK can negotiate meaningful free trade deals while locking itself into the EU rulebook is propagating a delusion.
Failing to take back control would be to ignore the largest democratic vote in British history. The consequences would be dire.
Let’s accept we will be far better off leaving with a Canadian-style free trade agreement – or, failing that, WTO terms.
Our new Export Strategy, which I am launching today, will put in place the tools that businesses have told us they need to help them on their journey.
The “Common Rulebook” approach is an ostacle to signing up to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership.
As he battled the agri-barons, and Thatcher battled the union barons, so we must champion the underdog against the corporatist barons of today.
We re-run the author’s series on what might be done for the UK to be Ready on Day One.