Jonathan de Leyser

Jonathan de Leyser is Director of the Initiative for Free Trade, a research organisation making the intellectual and moral case for free trade, and which sees Brexit as an opportunity to revitalise the global trading system.

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May’s White Paper would – just about – allow Britain to be a force for global free trade

While introducing the Initiative for Free Trade  to someone recently, I was asked: “So, is it free trade with Europe that you’re promoting, or free trade with the rest of the world?” As a way of trying to plot IFT on the “Brexit spectrum”, I thought this was in one sense quite an intelligent question. […]