Fox’s application arrived with 15 mins to go. Here’s who he’s up against
- One of the authors of the proposal to create the WTO
- Chair of Gavi, that has immunised a quarter of a billion children, and ex-finance minister
- A former diplomat, WTO Director and trade lawyer.
1/ https://twitter.com/bbaschuk/status/1280894521438621696

- A former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador to the WTO, and expert in International Trade Law.
- A trade minister of a country that has completed many successful trade negotiations.
- A former Foreign Affairs and Trade minister and Assistant UN Secretary General
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- A former minister of the Economy and bank CEO.
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The UK has put up a discredited trade minister, loathed by business, that promised deals that never materialised, was once fired as a security risk, and and who strongly advocated leaving the world’s largest trading block, damaging trade and the domestic & global economy.
4/4

PS, I happen to know some of the UK delegation in Geneva, and they are top-class diplomats and negotiators. I’d lay 20/1 odds-on that the stupid dash to get the application in was the Govt’s fault, not theirs.