Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/330280 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
CITP Working Paper No. 011
Publisher: 
Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy (CITP), University of Sussex Business School, Brighton
Abstract: 
Since Brexit the UK has been responsible for its own trade policymaking rather than inputting into the collective policy of the European Union. This paper starts by sketching how that policy has been developed and implemented and how it is turning out. Overall, it is not very complimentary about the UK Government's efforts and so it then moves on to consider how we might do better. One dimension of this is how trade policy could be made more inclusive in formulation. I propose three (sets of) institutional reforms: increasing Parliamentary (and other) scrutiny of the government's trade policy plans; after examining how the UK public thinks about trade policy, it asks whether (how) one should take into account public attitudes to trade policy issues; finally it argues for creating an independent source of advice and analysis on trade policy. It concludes by noting that while recent history has been disappointing, trade policy by any government would be improved by the reforms recommended.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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