
trade deal


Calum Martin: Why Trump is not a protectionist, but we perhaps should be
Calum Martin, national co-chair of the Scottish Socialist Party, highlights a new trade deal between Japan and the EU which will increase the power of corporations over our lives, and says it’s wrong to think of ‘free trade’ as anti-Trump, as the US President’s plan is simply seeking to bully countries into acquiescing to US corporate power

Conservative UK and US think tanks meet in Washington to plot post-Brexit regulations bonfire
Although formal negotiations cannot legally begin until March 2019, prominent right-wing think tanks have met in Washington DC to discuss an “ideal” trade agreement between the UK Government and the Trump administration
SPECULATIVE TALKS have begun in Washington DC to explore the possibility of a new post-Brexit trade agreement between the UK and the United States, overseen by several right-wing and libertarian think tanks known to have extreme views on getting rid of regulations and the welfare state.