Brexit – Page 4

Post-Brexit Trade Policy: Negotiating Country-by-Country Deals and its Discontents

By Silke Trommer Filed Under: All posts, Brexit, British Politics Posted: March 2, 2017

As Britain prepares to exit the European Union and as news outlets, think tanks and policy experts try to work out the Government’s strategy and priorities for their exiting agreement and plans post-Brexit, trade policy continues to be a key theme. With the new US administration making clear their country-by-country approach to trade deals, Dr […]

Brexit and science: all risk and no benefit

By Martin Yuille Filed Under: All posts, Brexit, Science and Engineering, Science and Technology Posted: February 9, 2017

With new trade deals being negotiated following the Brexit vote, there are other areas of policy which should not be overlooked. Martin Yuille, Reader in Biobanking/Co-Director of CIGMR at The University of Manchester, argues that science and technology is increasingly a pre-condition for world-class research and therefore, now, after the EU referendum, the UK cannot […]

Crunch Time – Industrial Strategy and our economic future

By Diane Coyle Filed Under: British Politics Posted: February 6, 2017

The Government’s Industrial Strategy will be the flagship domestic reform programme of Theresa May’s administration. As Brexit realities begin to bite, it could also make the difference between success and failure across entire sectors of the UK economy. On the launch day of our joint independent Industrial Strategy Commission with the University of Sheffield, Policy@Manchester […]

Eyes wide open – addressing immigration, to secure immigration

By Martin Walker Filed Under: All posts, British Politics Posted: January 31, 2017

The University of Manchester’s Professor Martin Walker argues that the debate over immigration has suffered obfuscation on all sides – with anti-immigration voices refusing to acknowledge the economic necessity and benefits of immigration to the United Kingdom, and an equal unwillingness on the opposing side to recognise the extent (and skewed distribution) of its economic […]

How different does it have to get before we start changing the way we think about it?

By Alan Kirman Filed Under: All posts Posted: January 19, 2017

Guest edited by Ben Pringle, former chair of Post Crash Economics The 2008 crash clearly demonstrated the failures of a (neo)liberal economic model that claimed to have solved ‘boom and bust’ cycles of growth and recession and found the tools to prevent the onset of longer-term economic depressions. In the wake of this generation-defining failure, […]

Failed political predictions and the future of opinion polls

By Thomas Loughran Filed Under: All posts, British Politics Posted: December 5, 2016

The 2015 UK General Election, the EU Referendum and, most recently, the US Presidential Election all produced results which most major pollsters and media outlets failed to predict. Amongst growing distrust of opinion polls across the Western World, Thomas Loughran considers the use of political opinion polls and where to go from here. The decline […]

Hammond turns to science (…and mayors must follow)

By Andy Westwood Filed Under: All posts, Devo, Inclusive Growth, Urban Posted: November 29, 2016

There may or may not be a plan for Brexit, but after the Autumn Statement last week, there is now at least a plan for mitigating it. In summary, it is based on abandoning George Osborne’s fiscal targets and borrowing significant amounts in order to fund infrastructure and to finance a new industrial strategy. Taken […]

Do the new GDP figures prove that ‘all’s well that ends well’ for the Brexiteers?

By Diane Coyle Filed Under: All posts Posted: October 28, 2016

This week, the first official GDP figures since the vote to leave the European Union were released by the Office for National Statistics. Although there was a slow down in the economic growth from 0.7% to 0.5%, the figures were stronger than some pessimistic economists had predicted. Professor Diane Coyle uses a Brexit lens to […]

The case against Linguaphobia

By Yaron Matras Filed Under: All posts, Brexit Posted: September 29, 2016

In the wake of Brexit, universities have a duty to promote the benefits of linguistic diversity more than ever, says Yaron Matras. Brexit represents the triumph of insularity and isolationism – that is the view shared by most of those who promote the teaching and learning of modern languages in Britain. The anti-immigration rhetoric, which […]

Public engagement must not be a soft option

By Dame Nancy Rothwell Filed Under: All posts, Brexit Posted: September 21, 2016

In the wake of the Brexit vote, universities must redouble their efforts to demonstrate how they are using public money to improve society and people’s lives, argues Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell. Universities must do more to encourage, support and reward public engagement. As public institutions in receipt of millions of pounds of taxpayer funds, this […]