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Monday morning Brexit roundup - because it's getting harder to keep up with everything...
1/ UK and Switzerland to sign continuity trade agreement today reuters.com/article/uk-bri…
1/ UK and Switzerland to sign continuity trade agreement today reuters.com/article/uk-bri…
2/ The UK-Switzerland rollover doesn't maintain the exact same benefits, in particular due to the Swiss-EU relationship. Fortunately @CoppetainPU has done some of the analysis for us... tradebetablog.wordpress.com/2019/02/05/uk-…
3/ ERG Brexiteers continue to make the case for the Malthouse 'compromise' based on the usual dubious assertions (we can't kill the WTO Article 24 myth) brexitcentral.com/strong-reasons…
4/ Fortunately @UKandEU have a rather good backstop explainer out today which, again, utterly debunks Malthouse as well as providing real detail on how we got to where we are and what probably happens next. Recommended. ukandeu.ac.uk/wp-content/upl…
5/ Another long explainer, this time of WTO terms, provided by trade policy veteran Stuart Harbinson for @UKTradeForum - uktradeforum.net/2019/02/09/lea…
6/ A couple of threads to finish, the latest from @EmporersNewC finds that the much vaunted 90% of growth outside the EU figure needs a little examination (half is India and China, and nobody is suggesting we do trade deals with them)
7/ Finally from me over the weekend, you may have missed the story about why the next few weeks of Brexit may have more to do with competition among US corporate interests than Ireland... /end
8/ Wait, there's more, another @UKandEU report, this time on outward investment from the UK to the EU, as you'd expect to see...
9/ Meanwhile a former eminent Secretary of State for Brexit proposes a 20% devaluation in the event of no-deal, to ensure a poorer, sorry more competitive, UK - the markets may do this for him to be fair thetimes.co.uk/article/ignore…
