By Brian Monteith – 3 minute read LATER THIS YEAR the UK Government will have the opportunity on the world stage to stand up for our sovereignty and show the world the progress it has made towards reaching its smokefree 2030 target. In November, a UK delegation will attend the 10th meeting of the World [...]
By Brian Monteith – 5 minute read FINALLY JOINING the CPTPP (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) will be a great moment for our Global Britain. As our research has shown over more than two decades of studying the ONS export data, the real economic growth the UK has to tap into and benefit [...]
By Brian Monteith – 4 minute read I HAVE PREVIOUSLY written on the wide range of mad and bad practicalities of the NI Protocol. Possibly the most absurd is that boats leaving Northern Irish harbours such as the Kilkeel fleet are, under the Protocol, not allowed to land their legitimate catches in their own ports [...]
By Brian Monteith – 6 minute read HAVING HEARD the Prime Minister’s sales pitch of the Windsor Framework when he launched it I immediately smelled a rat. It sounded too good to be true. Sadly, my initial fears have been proven right. It is not any good at all, indeed it is actually worse than [...]
By Brian Monteith – 5 minute read EARLIER THIS YEAR the European Commission proposed a new law to halt deforestation and minimise the EU’s impact on forests worldwide. Its aim was to prevent beef, palm oil and other products linked to deforestation from being sold in the EU single market of 446 million consumers. But [...]
