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Trading places: What does Brexit mean for the UK’s economic strategy?
, joint with Economy 2030, the Resolution Foundation and the Nuffield Foundation
Thursday 14 October 2021 09:30 - 10:45
This event is both online and in person
The Resolution Foundation, 2 Queen Anne's Gate, London SW1H 9AAAbout this event
In-person event and live interactive webinar. Register to receive access link.
The UK's political and policy debate on trade has become preoccupied with the nuts and bolts of individual trade deals - some real, some imaginary. Meanwhile bigger questions about the future path of the UK economy post-Brexit are ignored. Trade shapes our economic strengths and weaknesses, the jobs we do, and where we do them. More focus is needed on how trade fits into the UK's wider economic plan - and how that in turn fits into a changing world economy.
What does wanting to be an open economy mean after Britain's divorce from its biggest trading partner? Amid the immediate, direct effects of Brexit, can we see signs of the longer-lasting changes it might bring? How should a trade strategy align with other aspects of a new economic agenda, from 'levelling up' to the Prime Minister's wish to move away from a low wage, low productivity labour market? And where does Britain fit in a new world order dominated by the EU, the US and China?
The Resolution Foundation is hosting an in-person and interactive webinar - as part of The Economy 2030 Inquiry, funded by the Nuffield Foundation - to debate and answer these questions. Following a presentation of the key highlights from new Resolution Foundation research on the role of trade in shaping a decade of economic change for Britain in the 2020s, we will hear from two leading experts on how we should approach this challenge.
The event will be open for a limited number of people to physically attend, and also broadcast via YouTube and the Resolution Foundation website. Viewers will be able to submit questions to the panel before and during the event.
Speakers:
Soumaya Keynes Britain economics correspondent at The Economist.
Dr Swati Dhingra Associate Professor of Economics at the LSE.
Iain Martin Columnist for The Times and Editor of Reaction.
Sophie Hale Principal Economist at the Resolution Foundation.
Chair:
Torsten Bell Chief Executive of the Resolution Foundation.
Registration
Register to attend in person or to watch the livestream online here.
The Economy 2030 Inquiry is a collaboration between the Resolution Foundation and the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. It is supported by the Nuffield Foundation.