Publications
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International Trade Publications
A Global Maritime Power
Nusrat Ghani MP, Benjamin Barnard, Dominic Walsh and William NicolleThe UK is one of the world’s leading maritime nations. As it leaves the European Union, Britain’s status as a leading economic and geo-political power depends upon the strength of its maritime industry. This paper, co-authored by former Transport Minister Nusrat Ghani MP, highlights the difficulties facing the maritime sector and shows how support for our ports, shipping companies, shipbuilders and others can play a central role in the delivery of Government priorities such as the levelling-up agenda, making a success of Brexit, encouraging international trade, and supporting clean growth.
The Irish Backstop: Nothing has changed? It has actually
Lord Bew and Lord TrimbleThe UK Government is now correct in asserting the right, in extremis, to appeal to international law under the Vienna Convention.
A Second Look
Professor Guglielmo Verdirame, Sir Stephen Laws and Richard EkinsThe UK’s legal position in relation to the backstop.
Strengthening the UK’s position on the Backstop
Professor Guglielmo Verdirame and Richard Ekins“The UK continues to be too timid” in its negotiations with the EU over the Backstop and its relationship to the 1998 Good Friday Agreement
The ‘Backstop’ Paralysis: A Way Out
Lord BewThe Irish Backstop would “turn the Good Friday Agreement on its head”
The Irish Border and the Principle of Consent
Dr Graham Gudgin and Ray BassettIt is the EU’s Brexit position which most threatens the terms of the Good Friday Agreement.
Trading Tigers
Dr Geoff Raby and Warwick LightfootBrexit offers the opportunity to join free trade deals with fast growing economies like members of the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) – but only if the UK is free to make commitments on both goods and services, argues a new essay by Policy Exchange’s Head of Trade Policy Geoff Raby and Head of Economics Warwick Lightfoot.
Brexit and the British Growth Model
Christopher Bickerton, Warwick Lightfoot, Dr Graham Gudgin and John MillsIn this new Policy Exchange paper Brexit and the British Growth Model, Dr Christopher Bickerton of Cambridge University argues that post-Brexit we need a new approach to and understanding of economic growth which moves away from a reliance on consumption. He advocates a new social settlement to mediate the relations between individuals, the state and markets.
Brexit: Prospects for Trade and Britain’s Maritime Ports
Michael TaylorBritain’s competitive and dynamic sea ports are well placed to reap the rewards of growing trade flows in and out of the UK. Around £570 billion in trade passes through Britain’s sea ports and after Brexit this is likely to increase, argues Policy Exchange’s new report Brexit: Prospects for Trade and Britain’s Maritime Ports.
Getting Over the Line: Solutions to the Irish border
Dr Graham Gudgin and Ray BassettThe Irish border is not the insoluble obstacle to Brexit negotiations that it has been made out to be and the UK can leave the single market and customs union while preserving a frictionless border in Ireland. This can be achieved by the use of new technology and in the context of a Free Trade Agreement between the UK and EU, in an arrangement that goes beyond the Customs Partnership and in no way threatens the Good Friday Agreement.
