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Squids in: is an October deal on the cards?
Businesses and experts are growing increasingly uneasy about the lack of progress in the UK-EU negotiations. But is October the new June? Ros Taylor and Roch Dunin-Wąsowicz (LSE) round up the week’s...
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3 July Brexit update: ‘Wake me up in September/October’
The deadline to extend the transition period has lapsed and talks broke up early this week with very little progress made – while the UK government ran into trouble over satellites and Northern...
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The emerging post-Brexit strategy for universities may cause reckless damage...
UK universities are already reeling from Brexit uncertainty and the fallout from COVID-19. We now learn of new measures, which would impose international student rates on EU students and make them...
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Australian-style no-deal exit, smugglers on the Irish Sea, and the Eurostar...
While Boris Johnson warns Angela Merkel that the UK is ready to go without a trade deal if the EU won’t compromise, Liz Truss warns the PM the post-2020 border arrangements may result in smuggling and...
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The rise of anti-system politics reflects the exhaustion of neoliberal democracy
The rise of anti-system politics reflects the exhaustion of neoliberal democracy, writes Jonathan Hopkin (LSE) in his new book ‘Anti-System Politics. The Crisis of Market Liberalism in Rich...
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LSE Continental Breakfast 17: The North Atlantic Trade Triangle
In late June, trade and LSE experts met over Zoom to talk about the future of the North Atlantic Trade Triangle. Elitsa Garnizova (LSE) reports on the discussion. The United States and the European...
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17 July Brexit update: Building a lorry park in Kent
Businesses now have a better idea of what exporting and importing goods from the EU will be like, write Ros Taylor and Roch Dunin-Wąsowicz (LSE) – and they don’t like it much. Suddenly, it’s all about...
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Brexit is a policy innovation that causes uncertainty: to tackle it the...
Brexit is a radical policy innovation that increases uncertainty. Richard Bronk (LSE) argues that the UK government should therefore improve its ability to navigate uncertain futures and avoid the...
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The choice Britain faces if it wants an EU trade deal: either EFTA, or the...
Britain faces a fateful decision. If it wants an FTA with the EU, says Carl Baudenbacher (Monckton Chambers/LSE), it will need to either sign up to EFTA/EEA institutions, or accept the Ukraine model –...
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From Russia with interference, money, and…?
This week brings evidence of Russian interference in the UK’s democratic process, very little progress in the Brexit talks, and a big victory for the European Commission in pushing through the EU’s new...
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UK’s post-Brexit data regime: between EU privacy law and US surveillance law
What does the Schrems case mean for UK post-Brexit data flows? At the heart of the Schrems case is a conflict of laws – a conflict between EU privacy law and US surveillance law. After 31 December, the...
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Light, and lots of paperwork, at the end of the tunnel
This week’s big, though not surprising, news is that new customs hurdles loom for UK businesses, especially in terms of cost and paperwork, when the country leaves the EU’s Customs Union at the end of...
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A History of Brexit in 47 Objects: The Journey to 2016
In the second of his nine-part history of Brexit, Tim Oliver looks at six objects that tell the history of how Britain found itself facing a referendum. We begin our history of Brexit with six objects...
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A History of Brexit in 47 Objects: The Story of Leave
In the third part of his nine-part series on the history of Brexit, Tim Oliver (Loughborough University London) looks at six objects through which we can understand why the Leave campaign won. Why the...
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A green trade deal can save the Brexit negotiations
The combination of COVID-19 and the need for a post-Brexit trade deal provides an opportunity to push for the decarbonisation of the economy. It’s time for a post-Brexit green trade deal, argues...
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Conor Gearty on the Challenge to the Irish Protocol: ‘the rule of law’ is out
The UK government has published a bill which threatens to depart from its long-standing advocacy of ‘the rule of law’ in international affairs. This will no doubt incur great damage to the UK’s sense...
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Sovereignty cuts both ways, Downing Street has forgotten that
Sovereignty cuts both ways, writes Richard Rose. Characteristic of British policy since the Brexit process began, Downing Street has forgotten that the EU and its member states are sovereign powers...
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Majority of Brits want a soft Brexit compromise, but Leave voters don’t
With the battle over Brexit returning to the House of Commons with the Internal Market Bill, it is easy to lose sight of the bigger picture: what the British public wants in terms of a longer-term...
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Tony Abbot: the expert the UK has been waiting for?
Is Tony Abbot the expert the UK has been waiting for, asks Laurenz Mathei? Putting aside his exclusionary views, the appointment of the Australian is questionable, he maintains. The recent appointment...
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European Investment Bank: the UK will miss it when it is gone
European Investment Bank loans have been present in every important sector of the UK economy. The UK will miss that gold-plated source of project finance when it is gone, write Brian Unwin and Iain...
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