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Where is the Conservatives’ post-Brexit agenda?

18 December 2020

2:30 AM

18 December 2020

2:30 AM

What’s the point of Brexit? We are told it is to take back control, but that is a means to an end: what is the end?

The current answer is another slogan, ‘unleashing Britain’s potential’, which strings together a collection of policies: trade deals with non-EU countries that, to date, largely replicate existing deals; tougher immigration – although the government’s plan will open up the UK to higher levels of immigration from non-EU countries, and has no cap on numbers; taking control of our waters (fishing is about 0.1%

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George Bridges was a Brexit minister from 2016 to 2017.


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