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The State of Britain

The UK's economy, trade and investment

Peter Foster talks to politicians, policymakers and businesses about the UK’s search for growth, productivity and its place in a changing world. 

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  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Labour has political headroom on immigration. How will it use it? Premium content

    Also in this week’s newsletter, cuts to youth services in England and Wales and their impact

  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
    UK industrial strategy
    Does Britain need an industrial strategy? Premium content

    Labour identifies support for key sectors if it wins the election but critics say state intervention distorts the free market

    Britishvolt’s planned electric vehicle plant in Blyth in northern England
  • Thursday, 30 May, 2024
    Whitehall reform
    Fixing Whitehall comes second to big, brave decisions needed to fix Britain Premium content

    Keir Starmer pledges to reboot government operations; plus, UK skills training falls far behind peer countries

    Keir Starmer
  • Thursday, 23 May, 2024
    UK politics
    Labour can blast Tory chaos but it needs a plan too, not least on universities Premium content

    Row over graduate visas reveals political cack handedness; plus, tackling a serious social housing shortage

    James Cleverly and Rishi Sunak
  • Thursday, 16 May, 2024
    UK public policy
    Why we’re relaunching our guide to post-Brexit Britain Premium content

    Upgrading state will take more than money; plus, businesses bewail new hostile environment for overseas graduates

    Keir Starmer
  • Thursday, 9 May, 2024
    Brexit
    A redemptive moment for EU-UK relations Premium content

    Also in this week’s newsletter: a superficially comforting headline on inward investment

    Friedrich Merz, leader of Germany’s CDU party
  • Thursday, 2 May, 2024
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    The week that summed up the performative and inept nature of Brexit Premium content

    Also in this week’s newsletter, how post-Brexit trade continues to confound expectations

    A lorry at the port of Dover
  • Thursday, 25 April, 2024
    Brexit
    Youth mobility deal risks waking sleeping Brexit dogs Premium content

    Also in this week’s newsletter, new border charges threaten to push up imported food prices

    Students
  • Thursday, 18 April, 2024
    Brexit
    A glimpse of the Brexit debate of the future Premium content

    Also this week, evidence grows that new border controls are hitting meat imports

    Liz Truss autobiography on sale in a book shop
  • Thursday, 11 April, 2024
    Brexit
    A ghost of Brexit past returns to haunt Labour Premium content

    Talk of reviving Theresa May’s Chequers plan hints at a wider debate within the opposition party about future UK-EU ties

    Boris Johnson and Theresa May
  • Thursday, 4 April, 2024
    Brexit
    New import charges crystallise cost of Brexit Premium content

    Eleventh-hour introduction of Common User Charge triggers business backlash

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  • Thursday, 28 March, 2024
    Newsletter
    The uncomfortable truth on EU trade for Labour Premium content

    Also in this week’s newsletter: Britons’ changing attitudes to immigration

    Keir Starmer, centre, and Angela Rayner talk to students at the launch of their local election campaign
  • Thursday, 21 March, 2024
    Brexit
    Stormont’s honeymoon ends as Brexit pulls parties apart Premium content

    Plus, Northern Ireland trade with UK declines but grows with the EU

    Queen Camilla (centre) with First Minister of Northern Ireland, Michelle O’Neill (left) and Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, Emma Little-Pengelly at Hillsborough Castle
  • Thursday, 14 March, 2024
    Brexit
    Labour needs to make the case for deeper EU alignment Premium content

    Keir Starmer must go further than simply arguing for greater military co-operation to reap benefits of closer relations

    Keir Starmer
  • Thursday, 7 March, 2024
    Brexit
    The B-word Hunt failed to mention Premium content

    The chancellor may not have mentioned Brexit but the OBR pointed to it as a cause of the UK’s ongoing economic weakness

    Chancellor Jeremy Hunt speaks in the House of Commons
  • Thursday, 29 February, 2024
    Brexit
    Five ways to support business and innovation post-Brexit Premium content

    The UK has the potential to be a global leader in approving new industries but it must act quickly

    Lab creating fat for meat alternatives
  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    Brexit
    Security can be the starting point for deepening the post-Brexit UK-EU relationship Premium content

    Also in this week’s newsletter, Goldman Sachs estimates Brexit’s impact on the UK economy

    Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses the Munich Security Conference last week
  • Thursday, 15 February, 2024
    Brexit
    EU clearing rules are a quiet win for London

    Also in this week’s newsletter, revisiting the financial regulation inherited from the EU

  • Thursday, 8 February, 2024
    Brexit
    Brexit highlights divisions in Ireland rather than heals them Premium content

    Plus, poll shows large numbers of readers of Tory newspapers want a change of government

    Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill, left, and the DUP’s Emma Little-Pengelly, respectively the first minister and deputy first minister of Northern Ireland
  • Thursday, 1 February, 2024
    Brexit
    Four years on and Brexit still isn’t ‘done’ Premium content

    Costs are rising and the UK is becoming a less attractive supply chain partner

    DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson
  • Thursday, 25 January, 2024
    Brexit
    Brexit is leading to growing Balkanisation for business Premium content

    Also in this week’s newsletter, the counterfactual case that proves UK trade is disappointing

  • Thursday, 18 January, 2024
    Brexit
    Britain and the EU can share ‘mutual investments’ Premium content

    Also in this week’s newsletter, the unintended consequences of Brexit on migration

    Outside of European Medicines Agency
  • Thursday, 11 January, 2024
    Brexit
    Freeports are a regional industrial strategy that dare not speak its name Premium content

    Also in this week’s newsletter, BCG predicts decline in UK goods trade with EU and US

  • Thursday, 4 January, 2024
    Brexit
    Why business shouldn’t expect Keir Starmer to come to the rescue on Brexit Premium content

    Should he win this year’s election, the Labour leader faces hard choices over the UK’s relationship with the EU

    Kier Starmer delivering a speech
  • Thursday, 14 December, 2023
    Brexit
    AI presents a ‘Brexit opportunity’ for Britain but there are risks Premium content

    The government could diverge from the EU regulating when the new technology

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