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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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    Labour correctly highlights higher education crisis but offers no solutions Premium content

    Also in this week’s newsletter, the UK’s fading allure for wealthy foreigners

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

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

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

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  • Thursday, 9 May, 2024
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    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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  • Thursday, 25 April, 2024
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    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

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  • Thursday, 18 April, 2024
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  • Thursday, 11 April, 2024
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    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

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  • Thursday, 4 April, 2024
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    Eleventh-hour introduction of Common User Charge triggers business backlash

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  • Thursday, 28 March, 2024
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    Also in this week’s newsletter: Britons’ changing attitudes to immigration

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  • Thursday, 21 March, 2024
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    Stormont’s honeymoon ends as Brexit pulls parties apart Premium content

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

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  • Thursday, 14 March, 2024
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    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
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    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
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    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

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  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
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    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

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  • Thursday, 15 February, 2024
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    Britain and the EU can share ‘mutual investments’ Premium content

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