The Case for Full UK-US Strategic Economic Alignment
The MEGA Deal
July 15, 2025
A new study by Policy Exchange provides the rationale and template for a new UK-U.S. tech-security trade deal centred around the emerging technologies of the 21st century.
The authors argue that the UK would reap transformative economic and security benefits from strategic alignment and deeper collaboration with the democratic world’s technological and economic superpower.
In a foreword for the report, former UK Chief Trade Negotiation Adviser Sir Crawford Falconer KCMG writes:
“For at least seventy years we had come to almost simply assume that the trading order was largely self-contained and grounded securely on a kind of quasi-universally accepted benign cosmopolitanism…On the other hand there are observers and some policymakers ready to speak of a new world. But there is much less clarity about what that really means. At the very least it must mean actually accepting that our security policies are moving to the heart of our trade policy…
What is particularly valuable about this new Policy Exchange Paper The MEGA Deal is that it not only starts from that premise, but actually proposes that we start to do something serious about it. It makes a compelling case for a bold and ambitious convergence agenda with the United States on technology, with a core focus on security technology.”
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