@andrewlewinmp.bsky.social, Labour MP and Chair of the UK Trade and Business Commission: 📈"This is about making practical steps forward that are good for business and are good for the economy and good for young people as well" (1/2)

Despite welcoming the new India trade deal, bigger gains could be generated by removing barriers to trade with the EU, which accounts for roughly 50% of UK trade. Independent analysis has found that aligning with the EU could add up to 1.5% to UK GDP. www.tradeandbusiness.uk/news/busines...

🚨 🇺🇸 Deborah Elms, Trade Policy Head at Hinrich Foundation: "I now talk about as long as Trump stays in the White House, because I'm not convinced how long that might be." "So just as a sort of, you know, thought experiment, it could be longer or shorter than you imagine."

🚨🇺🇸 Professor Jun Du: "We need to provide the certainty from the market and the policy perspective. to encourage investment, domestically but also foreign" "We need to allow us to export to large markets to encourage investment by providing certainty."

🚨 🇺🇸 Emily Lydgate, Co-Director of UK Trade Policy Observatory: "On SPS, I think the UK has actually prioritized the EU in what it's agreed so far." "So it's already said it's going to have a common SPS area with the EU. That is a very clear commitment."

🚨 🇺🇸 Professor Jun Du: "The EU is really important for the integrated supply chain relationship of UK companies." "So without being close and integrating with the EU, we cannot produce the things we produce." "The US as a market it is mainly for the finalised products."

⚠️ Former UK ambassador to the US, Lord Kim Darroch: “Nothing is ever fixed in concrete with Donald Trump. We have the potential for future tariffs. Everything that we have negotiated and we think is settled can be reopened." "There is a permanent risk." www.tradeandbusiness.uk/news/trump-i...

🚨🇺🇸 @emilylydgate.bsky.social,Co-Director of UK Trade Policy Observatory: "There also could be trade- offs between accommodating some of the US asks that on conformity assessment bodies and their access to the UK and on SPS in terms of our deep alignment or closer cooperation with the EU."

🚨 🇺🇸 Professor Jun Du: "His (Trump's) method seems to be coercion through uncertainty." "If you think about typical game theory games the players don't know really how to expect the outcomes if they can't really think of whether this person is a rational person or madman."

🚨🇺🇸 Deborah Elms, Trade Policy Head at Hinrich Foundation: "My first point as you're trying to deal with Donald Trump always is don't bother looking for a strategy." "There's no grand design. There's no overarching approach. There's no clear path that he's following."

🚨 🇺🇸Former UK ambassador to the US, Kim Darroch on the Trump's tariffs: "I read estimates that tariffs overall will be 10% to 20% higher, on everyone, over these three and a half years." "And that's a really significant blow, I think, to the global economy." "So, bad news."

🚨Our evidence session starts today at 10:30am, where we will provide insights into the US-UK relationship. Our witnesses; - @emilylydgate.bsky.social, UK Trade Policy Observatory - Deborah Elms, Hinrich Foundation - Jun Du, Aston Business School Watch below 👇 www.youtube.com/live/YzmC8-6...

🇬🇧🇦🇺UKAS and National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia (NATA), have signed a new Memorandum of Understanding. Deepening collaboration and support trade and regulatory alignment between the United Kingdom and Australia. www.ukas.com/resources/la...

🚨Our evidence session takes place; - Tomorrow at 10:30am. - Providing insights into the US-UK relationship. Our witnesses; - @emilylydgate.bsky.social, UK Trade Policy Observatory - Deborah Elms, Hinrich Foundation - Jun Du, Aston Business School Watch below 👇 www.youtube.com/live/YzmC8-6...

🚨Our next evidence session takes place this Thursday at 10:30am, providing insights into the evolving US-UK relationship. Our witnesses; - @emilylydgate.bsky.social , UK Trade Policy Observatory - Deborah Elms, Hinrich Foundation - Jun Du, Aston Business School www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzmC...

❓Want to know all about the UK's new Trade Strategy? 🇪🇺For the first time since Brexit, the government has confirmed that trade with the EU is the priority. www.tradeandbusiness.uk/news/new-tra...

🇬🇧Our Chair, @andrewlewinmp.bsky.social: 📉"Brexit has been destructive to our economy" 💰"The damage done has been to the tune of £100 bn" ❌So many businesses forced out of business "drowning in bureaucracy and red tape"

@emilylydgate.bsky.social‬, Co-Director of the UK Trade Policy Observatory: "(The EU and UK) agreed to deep sectoral alignment" 🍒"Which means that the no cherry picking line is officially dead from the EU and I think from the UK, show's that the UK isn't prioritising regulatory sovereignty"

🇪🇺🇬🇧UK Trade and Business Commission Expert Adviser @davidheniguk.bsky.social's latest update following a "solid but unspectacular" summit... www.tradeandbusiness.uk/news/enterin...

[email protected]: "If you compare (the 0.2% economic impact of May 19) to the FTA's that the UK has signed after leaving the EU, that adds up to about 0.2% itself" 🇪🇺📊 Even small agreements with the EU give large GDP benefits due to our proximity and much higher level of trade.

💚 Ellie Belton: "Both sides have a shared interest in boosting the competitiveness of their green economies" 🔒 "I think we can expect the UK and EU's relationship with China to evolve, but working together to work through some of the security and supply chain risks"

❗ The UK's former permanent secretary to NATO, Sir Adam Thomson, warns that Trump could 'de facto' pull the US out of NATO as soon as next month...

[email protected]‬: "I think the 'Trump Always Chicken's Out' moniker is totally wrong" 🇺🇸"(Trump) is testing how much economic nationalism he can get away with without the equity markets declining too much" 🇬🇧🇪🇺"It puts increasing weight on trade cooperation between the EU & UK"

"The UK is already given access to 35% (of SAFE)... but it is also open to the UK and the EU to negotiate a fuller relationship that would put us on par with Ukraine" 🚨 Sir Adam Thomson on the opportunity granted by UK access to the EU's new defence procurement fund.

Ellie Belton (Senior Policy Advisor, E3G) on how the energy agreements announced at the UK-EU Summit will; 📉Reduce the cost of decarbonisation ⬇️ Bring down bills 🇬🇧🇪🇺EU-UK cooperation delivering cheaper and cleaner energy for both sides.

In 2023, @uktradebusiness.bsky.social published 114 proposals for strengthening the UK/EU relationship. At the summit last month, 42 of these were taken up. That's quite an impact. Tune in at 10.30, as an expert panel convenes to discuss the detail of the negotiations & where we go next 👇

🚨 A reminder to tune in tomorrow to hear expert insights into the next stage of the UK-EU relationship. Watch along live on YouTube...

⏰Thursday 10:30am 🚨After the Summit: Where Next? 🇬🇧🇪🇺Insights into the UK–EU relationship following the summit from leading experts; - Sir Adam Thomson, European Leadership Network - Ellie Belton, E3G - John Springford, Centre for European Reform www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPz0...

Peter Mandelson: “Why make a fetish of dis-alignment when we know that it’s in the interests of our business and traders to pursue and to follow those rules and standards” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

🚨A useful explainer of what is in the recently agreed UK-EU deal... www.tradeandbusiness.uk/news/what-is...

It was good to have the opportunity to talk about the UK/EU summit on Times Radio yesterday. We covered a lot of ground, from the widespread business support for the deal, to the opportunities for young people that will come from a youth mobility deal & membership of Erasmus+ youtu.be/ZIihvs7nuds

💥 Chair of the UK Trade & Business Commission @andrewlewinmp.bsky.social welcomes the progress towards a UK-EU youth mobility scheme, as currently "we’ve got deals with Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Iceland, Uruguay, but don’t have one with our closest allies just across the channel in the EU.”

Here is the chair of @uktradebusiness.bsky.social Committee, @andrewlewinmp.bsky.social, with a quick verdict and a great summary of today's UK-EU Reset deal. Andrew has worked tirelessly behind the scenes to make today happen and deserves huge praise. ~AA

This would represent a real breakthrough in the UK-EU Reset, and was one of the first recommendations to come out of the @uktradebusiness.bsky.social UK Trade & Business Commission

📊New polling shows that British voters back a more ambitious UK-EU reset. 🇬🇧More than a third of Brits feel like the Government is not going far enough, almost double those who feel the opposite. www.bestforbritain.org/poll_british...

London Mayor Sir @london.gov.uk has expressed his support for a youth mobility scheme with the EU to "rocket launch the economy". With multiple sectors calling for the scheme to fill gaps in the workforce, all eyes will now be on Monday's EU-UK Summit. www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view...

🇪🇺A security pact, reducing barriers to trade at the border, and a youth mobility scheme. Here are some of the things we could see discussed at the upcoming UK-EU Summit... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🇬🇧🇪🇺 A youth mobility visa was one of the 114 recommendations made by the inaugural UKTBC in May 2023. The policy may move one step closer to reality on Monday. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

I've been closely following the UK-EU reset and talking to folk on both sides for some time. These are some of my thoughts on how it all unfolded, ahead of what seems likely to be a successful summit next week. www.linkedin.com/pulse/watchi...

💥"As well as saying sorry for his language towards the business community, it might be time to say sorry to the 60% of companies that told the British Chambers of Commerce it has become harder to trade" @andrewlewinmp.bsky.social on how Boris Johnson's 'F*** Business' comment over Brexit came true.

📊 54% of voters would accept following some EU rules and regulations to improve trade, almost double the 29% who would not. 4️⃣ 2️⃣ 6️⃣ In 426 constituencies, the most popular option was to improve trade access even if it meant following all EU rules.

🇩🇪 Miguel Berger (German Ambassador to the UK) "I always hear this is a kind of freedom of movement through the back door - no it is not because it would be driven by visas.” YMS is not freedom of movement. But YMS is popular - 2/3 of Brits support a 2 year YMS scheme.

Deep goods and service alignment will shield the UK and EU from the worst of Trump's tariffs according to independent research by Frontier Economics. The study finds that regulatory alignment would increase EU exports by $29.7bn—almost as much as the $32.9bn boost for the UK. 📈

ICYMI: Watch the recording of our latest UKTBC Evidence Session with; 👉 @evieaspinall.bsky.social 👉 Miguel Berger (@germanambuk.bsky.social) 👉 Philip Rycroft www.tradeandbusiness.uk/evidence/wha...

Research by Frontier Economics shows that deep alignment with the EU on goods and services will deliver 2.2% economic growth to the UK. 🇪🇺🇬🇧 Eight times more than the growth delivered by the Australia, India, Japan and New Zealand trade deals combined (0.28% GDP growth). 🇦🇺🇮🇳🇯🇵🇳🇿

It's two weeks since over 70 Labour Parliamentarians called for our government to embrace a visa based youth mobility scheme with the EU. That prospect now looks closer than ever. The UK/EU summit on May the 19th is shaping up to be a very significant moment. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Two weeks is a long time in politics! A visa based UK/EU youth mobility deal would extend opportunities to young people in the UK and across Europe. Thank you to everyone who has helped to make the case, especially my 72 Labour colleagues who signed the letter just two weeks ago.

The India FTA will deliver more GDP growth for the UK than the Japanese, New Zealand and Australian deals.🇮🇳 However, these four deals combined deliver just 0.28% GDP growth in the long-run, compared to the 2.2% delivered by deep alignment with the EU.🇪🇺 www.tradeandbusiness.uk/news/what-is...

The UKTBC welcomes the new trade deal with India, it is now time for the Government to turn their attention towards the upcoming UK-EU summit. The EU remains our largest trading partner and removing UK-EU trade barriers is crucial for economic growth🇪🇺 www.tradeandbusiness.uk/news/welcome...

🚨More than 60 travel industry leaders have written to the minister for EU relations – urging him to pursue youth mobility arrangements between the UK and EU as part of talks to reset the UK’s relationship with the bloc. travelweekly.co.uk/news/travel-...