Is Britain heading for another Brexit battle? A decade after the referendum, the question of Britain’s relationship with Europe is back on the political agenda. And Lord Frost, the man who led the UK’s Brexit negotiations, believes the campaign to keep Britain out of the EU must begin again.
In this episode of The Capitalist, David Frost joins Marc Sidwell to discuss Andy Burnham’s ambitions for closer European ties, the unfinished business of Brexit and why successive Conservative governments failed to deliver the economic reforms that leaving the EU was supposed to make possible.
Frost argues that Britain’s economic malaise demands a radical programme of spending cuts, deregulation and free-market reform. He asks whether Kemi Badenoch’s Conservatives or Nigel Farage’s Reform UK have the appetite for change, explains why the machinery of Whitehall needs an overhaul and considers whether the British Right can put aside its divisions before the next election.
With the Brexit debate stirring once more, Frost has a message for those who thought the argument was settled: complacency could prove costly. And if another campaign begins, he’s ready to join it.
The Capitalist, presented by Marc Sidwell, is a CapX podcast exploring the people, policies and ideas shaping the future of free-market economics.
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