By Harry Western – 7 minute read The proposed Windsor Framework is bad deal for Northern Ireland and for the UK as a whole, with the bold claims made for it by the UK government not standing up to close scrutiny. Minor gains have been negotiated on trade in a few areas, but overall trade [...]
By Caroline Bell – 9 minute read The rebranding of the Northern Ireland Protocol as the ‘Windsor Framework’ is perhaps one of the biggest political con tricks of the Brexit years. Rather than removing administrative burdens and trade frictions between Great Britain and Northern Ireland created by the Protocol, the Windsor Framework tinkers with bureaucratic [...]
By Ewen Stewart – 6 minute read JEREMY HUNT’S latest Budget misses the point and does not address the underlying declining competitiveness of the UK economy. It fails to address the root of the problem; substantial excess public spending, extraordinarily weak public sector productivity and a subsequent loss of tax competitiveness with more micro-management and [...]
By Bob Lyddon – 3 minute read FIRST Jeremy Hunt said there had been no taxpayer support for Silicon Valley Bank (UK) – but then the Treasury's statement said there had been 'no taxpayer money'. There is a slight but important difference.
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 [...]
