Trade Negotiations: An Opportunity After Brexit—How to Get it Right—2016 Conservative Party Conference
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Brexit: Get it right and Britain can help create a new golden age of free trade and prosperity; get in wrong and protectionism, populism and impoverishment will follow. This panel at the 2016 Conservative Party Conference explored these issues and explained how an ambitious and radical trade agenda could deliver on the promise of a revitalised nation. Speakers included Danniel Hannan (MEP), Christian May (City A.M.), Carolyn Fairbairn (CBI) and Shanker Singham (Legatum Institute).
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