The middle way on free and fair trade (and the only practicable one)

People cannot simply be viewed as consumers or producers – there are other dimensions to policy, including the stewardship of the countryside.

Coronavirus 2) Ryan Bourne: Beware it being used as a cover for promoting socialism and protectionism

A home-focused industrial policy hardly saved China from this epidemic. And openness and markets ensure diversity of supply – particularly in medicine and food.

Ryan Bourne: The core challenge that Johnson’s Government won’t face up to. Boosting growth.

Ministers have been asked to push the Government’s priorities – tackling crime, funding the NHS, “levelling up”. How can these be effected without faster growth?

James Arnell: The conventional wisdom about a trade deal with America is wrong. Trump will want a fair one. Here’s why.

The primary motivation to strike a fair agreement with the UK will be to apply pressure to the EU.

Interview. Raab on the great opportunities and imponderable risks that he sees in a No Deal Brexit

The former Brexit Secretary warns of the danger that MPs will believe the Government has not even demanded the necessary concessions from Brussels.

WATCH: Ici Londres – There is nothing wrong with a trade deficit, argues Hannan

“The more cheaply we can buy goods and services… the more we free up time for our people to make, and sell, and buy, and invent things.”

In Twitter politics, truth is simultaneously the highest prize and the first casualty

Remarkably, sometimes these inconsistent trends both exist within the same tweet – as with a recent viral clip accusing a peer of telling lies when he was in fact correct.

J.P.Floru: Let’s be Singapore – and prosperous, post-Brexit, beyond our wildest dreams

Basically, we need to undercut the world. We can do so if we slash red tape and tax. Within a very short period there would be a pronounced Laffer Effect.

Coming soon to a party near you: the Institute for Protection

Supporters of a new pro-free trade think-tank will be told that Tories are all behind them in principle. But…

Antoinette Sandbach: We won’t make a success of Brexit if we don’t boost productivity

We should seek the closest possible relationship with the EU and an open trade policy. Firms need confidence to invest.

History demonstrates why a new pro-EU party would be doomed

Churchill saw a century ago that the existing party machines will always prove the stronger, and UKIP and the SDP have confirmed this.

Charlie Elphicke: Ready on Day One to trade with the world

The final article in the author’s five-piece series on how Britain must prepare for March 31 2019 – and has less than 600 days to get it right.

Alex Morton: Why supporting free trade and controlled migration is not a contradiction in terms

Individually, migrants can come to embody these values better than many on the Left who were born here. But the evidence suggests that this takes time.

42 per cent and no majority 6) Use leaving the EU to deliver lower food prices

Doing so would be a concrete and welcome improvement to the lives of millions of people.

Shanker A. Singham: Lingering in the EEA and Customs Union would guarantee a bad Brexit

This is because in order to maximise opportunities, we must have control over our tariff schedules and our domestic regulation.