By Catherine McBride – 7 minute read UK TRADE has taken quite a beating from the anti-Brexit brigade since the release of some 2021 trade figures almost a year ago. Now that the full set of 2022 trade figures have been made available we can see that not only were their conclusions premature, they were [...]
By Catherine McBride – 4 minute read LET’S TALK about Switzerland. First, let us remember, but it needs restating, the UK population voted to leave the EU. They voted to take back control of their laws, their money, and their borders. This is unlike Switzerland’s relationship with the EU, where it has to accept European Court [...]
By Catherine McBride – 3 minute read THERE ARE lots of points in the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement that need to be addressed, but this one requires serious debate: why does the chancellor regard returns on capital as ‘unearned income’? This seems to be a very strange British sentiment from the dark ages of pre-Thatcher Britain. Should [...]
By Catherine McBride – 4 minute read AS MUCH AS I don’t want to give George Eustice’s comments about the Australian trade deal any more publicity, he did seem to be looking at the deal from a very narrow perspective – his own perhaps? On the question of whether Eustice was lying to the House [...]
By Catherine McBride – 6 minute read IT HAS BEEN amusing to watch Jonathan Portes, Professor of Economics, Kings College London, hammering Mark Carney, now head of ESG investing at Brookfield Asset Management, for his inaccurate remark made during a Financial Times (FT) interview comparing UK and German GDPs since 2016. It was disingenuous for theformer Governor of the Bank of [...]
