Thread by @CoppetainPU

To sum up a 21-tweet thread (and we still don’t have the SNP)

1. Only the Tories have a trade policy but it is both vague (“free trade”) and impossibly ambitious—trade agreements covering 80% of UK trade in 3 yrs. And nothing on process (H/T @Brigid_Fowler) and consultation

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https://twitter.com/CoppetainPU/status/1197517402415812609

2. Labour addresses patents and drug pricing through compulsory licensing.

3. Only Labour and Plaid Cymru are specific about a UK-EU trade relation post-Brexit (Single Market and Customs Union). Both also allow for remain, the LibDems’ and Greens’ position.

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4. The Conservatives are vague on UK-EU trade. Only red lines: not single market or customs union, no role for ECJ. No indication of whether quick and shallow or deep and comprehensive, and how EU level playing-field demands would be handled.

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5. All insist trade deals cannot undermine human/animal welfare, labour/environmental standards, with NHS excluded.

6. None discusses trade-offs, winners-losers, consultation and Parliamentary oversight in developing trade policy—except the Greens on transparency in the EU

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7. I haven’t counted the Brexit Party in the above. Its only statement on trade is vague—zero tariffs on some unspecified products.

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