The EU is proposing a new law on Industrial strategy. Various versions have been leaked ahead of the planned February 25th publication. Whatever its final form, the proposals represent tension between the French desire for protectionism and other EU industrial nations desire for openness. Architect of the law is Stéphane Séjourné, Executive Vice-Pr...
When you think you have an agreement with the EU. They are masters of the art of 'Non Tariff Trade Barriers'. Or simply ignoring agreements, as they did while we were members, and they refused to complete the Single Market in Services. Dan Richey of Riverfront Packing Company, Florida explained. "We still have this Draconian non-tar...
Rachel - Black hole - Reeves seems unaware of the advice, "When you are in a hole, stop digging". First it was an inherited hole that she had fixed. Now the hole she fixed is bigger. A new culprit must be found. What better than Brexit, that hated dash for freedom that Hillary Benn, Keir Starmer and most of the Labour party tried to stop. Seeking t...
We have just witnessed a six week long surrender culminating in a humiliating defeat that the vanquished have greeted with joy. The glad handing between Starmer and Sunak might lead people to imagine that England's footballers had triumphed, not that Sunak had failed. After the Conservative triumph in 2019, it quickly became obvious that the so cal...
