Recent work has exposed the extent of EU protectionism within the single market Customs Union. If the UK leaves the EU … imports as in the case of the EU customs union. If having left the EU the UK finds a large country willing to offer a … beneficial free trade agreement, it is likely to be easier to conclude with the UK outside the EU than with it as part of the EU …

theory studies of international treaties. Our Agreement with the EU if we sign it will not last for long if it stops us from … pursuing our interests in trade and regulation: no one, certainly not the EU, can force us to stay with it. It has been … negotiated like a hostile divorce because the EU wanted to prove it does not pay to leave. But once the divorce has happened, it …