Hints and tips:
...“A customs union would require the UK to match the EU’s applied external tariff,” Lowe says....
...Sam Lowe, director of trade policy at Flint Global, a consultancy, played down the economic significance of the UK-China Joint Economic and Trade Committee....
...Which is why Lowe bets the government will have to move on this one, at least in the near term....
...Sam Lowe, trade expert at the Centre for European Reform, said the TRA’s ruling against extending the safeguards “could certainly be part of a country’s challenge at the WTO”....
...Truss said she would urgently review the trade remedies framework, which was first introduced 2018, “under the previous government” led by Theresa May....
...By way of proof, compare Mr Johnson’s deal, easily passed after he secured a majority in the December general election, and his predecessor Theresa May’s deal, which failed to get through the House of Commons...
...As Sam Lowe, a research fellow at the Centre for European Reform think-tank, puts it, “the negotiation will be over preconditions....
...How it differs from Theresa May’s deal Theresa May’s Brexit agreement last year contained a UK-wide backstop that would have kept the whole country in a customs zone with the EU....
...Theresa May is considering agreeing to keep the UK inside the EU’s tariff wall to secure a Brexit deal, which would restrict the country’s ability to do trade deals on goods but allow it to strike agreements...
...Sam Lowe of the Centre for European Reform says: “The EU cannot fundamentally go along with this....
...In 12 days’ time, Theresa May will once again put her Brexit deal to the Commons for a meaningful vote....
...The incoming prime minister’s gamble is that he can persuade Brussels to break up the withdrawal agreement agreed by the UK’s outgoing prime minister Theresa May and the EU last year....
...“While the Global Britain strategy is barely being communicated in India, the ‘hostile environment’ message is being heard loud and clear,” said the report, referring to tension between Prime Minister Theresa...
...Sam Lowe of the Centre for European Reform said: “If I was Boris Johnson, I’d ditch the DUP for a Northern Ireland-only backstop. I think his party could live with it.”...
...The document was signed in London by David Lidington, Theresa May’s de facto deputy, and Simon Coveney, Irish deputy premier....
...The government's ideas for avoiding infrastructure by relying on yet-to-exist technology are still met with huge scepticism (Sam Lowe has done a brilliant mock-up of what it looks like, below)....
...Taxing times It’s complicated, potentially illegal, and politically sensitive but Sam Lowe of the Centre for European Reform has some ideas on how the EU can design a well-functioning carbon border tax....
...Allies of Theresa May, who steps down as prime minister, also expect her to join the fight to stop a no-deal exit....
...whether on the question of the Irish border it moves “far and fast enough towards EU demands in the limited time left and [is] able to sell the concessions this entails better than” former prime minister Theresa...
...Theresa May’s decision to open talks with Jeremy Corbyn over Brexit has thrown a spotlight on one of the central questions facing the UK: should the country remain in a customs union with the EU after it...
...Many of Mr Johnson’s comments on Brexit seem designed to give the impression that he is adopting a much tougher approach than Prime Minister Theresa May, even embracing no deal....
...In polls, Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party is leading Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservatives and the opposition Labour party....
...Damian Lyons Lowe, Survation’s founder, said: “There is a difference between what the public want conceptually and what they think should happen now.”...
...But this universal dislike, far from disqualifying the deal, is a reason for Theresa May’s cabinet to endorse it and send it to parliament for approval....
...Immigration about turn Sam Lowe at the CER calls on the next post-Brexit UK government to seriously rethink its approach to immigration or risk indelibly damaging its roaring service sector....
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