Reaction to PM Theresa May’s Brexit speech

17 January 2017 Dr Peter Holmes (Reader in Economics and member of the UK Trade Policy Observatory at the University of Sussex), reacts to Prime Minister Theresa May’s speech on negotiating objectives for exiting the EU. The speech essentially confirms what we knew already, that sticking to the government’s red lines on the European Court of Justice and free movement would make joining the European Economic Area impossible and so we must leave the single market. […]

By |2025-07-18T14:20:57+01:0017 January 2017|UK- EU|0 Comments

Leaving the EU Customs Union: What is the issue?

29 July 2016 Professor L. Alan Winters, Professor Jim Rollo and Dr Peter Holmes are all members of UKTPO Liam Fox MP, the President of the Board of Trade, is reported as saying that the UK should leave the EU Customs Union so as to give it the freedom to negotiate Free Trade Areas (FTAs) with other countries. This would be an unexceptionable step after full Brexit but a provocative, and very probably costly, one before Brexit. […]

By , , |2025-09-05T12:37:55+01:0029 July 2016|UK- EU|0 Comments
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