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CEO, Competere. Former advisor to UK SoS Trade, Chairman of Special Trade Commission, former cleared advisor to USTR; Chairman, Growth Commission.
competere.co.uk Joined September 2015
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Shanker Singham Verified account @ShankerASingham
The PM is relying on a 0.4 per cent GDP growth projection for the reset. FOr SPS, the number does not include the loss of opportunity for the UK which cannot now improve its SPS regime in procompetitive ways. It does not include the increased burden for non-EU imports which will face the EU’s hazard based import control regime. It does not include…
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The important thing is this is not just a sitting MP but the CST. Her statement fundamentally misunderstand the nature of economic transactions. A dynamic economy favours the new entrant, the entrepreneurial company over the incumbent which prefers not to compete. What matters are the exchanges, their intensity and frequency, not this Marxist vision of workers and bosses. If that has any relevance, it is only to the state owned sector
Merryn Somerset Webb Verified account @MerrynSW Nov 1
This kind of thing is extraordinary. An MP. We must put a compulsory basic economics/business course in place before these people are allowed to take their seats.
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Shanker Singham Verified account @ShankerASingham
She might also tell them that Polish gherkins don’t attract any duty under the TCA, so if they are making a budget point it is in error.
Andrew Neil Verified account @afneil Oct 30
This suggests an Economist editorial of old, when it had something of importance to say and what it said mattered. In fact it’s just mundane milquetoast. Nobody cares. Its editor should spend less time trying to be a TV inquisitor, which she is not cut out to be, and give her magazine some robust intellectual backbone, which it sadly lacks.
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