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Fishing for votes: what’s really behind our trade war with France?

Who has the most to lose from our trade war with France?

6 November 2021

9:00 AM

6 November 2021

9:00 AM

A decade ago, French-bashing was all the rage. David Cameron famously declared Britain would ‘roll out the red carpet’ for those fleeing the steep tax hikes proposed by the newly elected Socialist president François Hollande. The French economy continued to be a source of derision for the British, culminating in the managing director of John Lewis describing it as ‘sclerotic, hopeless and downbeat’ in October 2014.

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