The UK’s trade performance remains dire

Press quote (Financial Times)
26 May 2025

Any improvement in market access might seems a good thing. But it can easily not be good enough, because the deals themselves are too small or because the performance is too feeble. In “A perfect storm: Britain’s trade malaise, weak growth and a new geopolitical moment”, published by the Centre for European Reform last week, Anton Spisak lays out the latter story.