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6 January 2022
Regulation
Annabel Denham writes for The Spectator
Annabel Denham, IEA Director of Communications, has penned an article for The Spectator outlining her views on Brexit's performance since the UK left the European Union. Annabel judges the UK's accomplishments in the areas of immigration, regulation, trade and the Northern Ireland Protocol. Annabel argues that the government has failed to take full advantage of ...
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6 January 2022
13 December 2021
Trade, Development, and Immigration
Julian Jessop quoted in The Express
Julian Jessop, IEA Economics Fellow, has been quoted in The Express regarding Ex-Belgian Prime Minister, Guy Verhofstadt's recent Tweet accusing Brexiteers of lying about the UK's trading potential outside of the Single Market. Verhofstadt produced a table claiming that the UK's trading flows had fallen behind other EU powers since 2006. Julian took to Twitter ...
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13 December 2021
16 November 2021
Trade, Development, and Immigration
Julian Jessop quoted in the Express
Julian Jessop, Economics fellow at the IEA, has commented on the future of US-UK trade relations following Brexit: "The US appears to be in no hurry to do a major trade deal with the UK. However, it should still be possible to do a series of mini-deals in less sensitive sectors." This is of particular ...
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16 November 2021
27 August 2021
Trade, Development, and Immigration
On Monday 16th August 2021 we received an unusual request. The IEA is part of an international network of educational free market think tanks, the Atlas Network, and we have or had a partner in Afghanistan (AELSO) who, along with everyone else, were trapped by the unfolding disaster of the Taliban’s capture of the country. ...
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Andy Mayer
27 August 2021
23 August 2021
Trade, Development, and Immigration
Mark Littlewood writes for The Times
In his bi-weekly column for The Times, IEA Director General, Mark Littlewood, discussed the need for people to focus on the success the world has had in lifting people out of poverty, arguing that an unhealthy obsession with the inequality gap between the rich and the poor ignores the great improvements capitalism has made to ...
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23 August 2021
9 July 2021
Trade, Development, and Immigration
As the Office for National Statistics releases trade data for May 2021, research from the Institute of Economic Affairs debunks 10 bad arguments against unilateral free trade The economic benefits of free trade come mainly from what countries import, rather than from what they sell overseas; Arguments against tariff-free trade usually boil down to saying that British families ...
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9 July 2021
25 May 2021
Trade, Development, and Immigration
IEA research referenced by the Daily Express
Trade Secretary Liz Truss has launched a public consultation for a trade deal with India. The Daily Express covered the story, saying a trade deal could be worth up to £100 billion. The article referenced IEA research by Academic Fellow Shanker Singham released last month called 'Eastern Promise: Assessing the Future of UK-India Trade'. In ...
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25 May 2021
19 May 2021
Trade, Development, and Immigration
Opposition to tariff-free access to UK markets for Australian farmers is protectionism, pure and simple. Minette Batters, president of the National Farmers Union (NFU), argues that removing tariffs would make it ‘all but impossible’ for British family farms ‘to compete with vast volumes of imports from the southern hemisphere produced in a very different manner’. ...
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Julian Jessop
19 May 2021
18 May 2021
Trade, Development, and Immigration
One of the challenges for free traders is that whenever trade barriers are lowered, while consumers gain from lower prices and wider choice, existing producers, who do not or cannot adapt, lose out due to increased competition. Economists usually describe this as dispersed gains but concentrated losses. Often the producers are better organised and more ...
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Syed Kamall
18 May 2021
12 May 2021
Trade, Development, and Immigration
Julian Jessop quoted in the Telegraph
The pessimism surrounding the UK's departure from the EU was unjustified, says Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in the Telegraph. As the UK economy bounces back strongly from the pandemic, defying gloomy predictions by the OECD and the IMF, and managing to reach pre-Brexit export levels to the EU, the EU instead has begun to lose its share ...
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12 May 2021
