Whither Global Britain. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12540103/chancellor-axe-foreign-aid-pay-covid-19/?utm_source=POLITICO.EU&utm_campaign=720bab29b6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_08_31_06_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_10959edeb5-720bab29b6-190296737">https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1254...

Once you& #39;ve had a vote to make the country more insular it is difficult to open up again. There are always domestic losers, and that doesn& #39;t sit well with populism.

Which then takes us to the leader of the Scottish conservatives saying no US trade deal https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/aug/30/scottish-tory-leader-douglas-ross-would-vote-against-uk-import-of-chlorinated-chicken-from-us">https://www.theguardian.com/politics/...

Increasingly hard to see how there can be a UK-US trade deal because of US demands on food, and the effects on Scotland in particular.

UK government also resisting an EU trade deal because of their level playing field demands.

This wasn& #39;t in the script.

Keeps soming back to this. And successive governments failing to prepare for it, in terms of the consensus that would be needed for difficult policy decisions. Still being denied. Advisers still hoping clever drafting can cover it up. Which it won& #39;t. https://twitter.com/DavidHenigUK/status/1298907312879538176?s=20">https://twitter.com/DavidHeni...

Incidentally, these points are neither pro or anti-EU. They& #39;re pro-reality. Back to a point many of us have been making for some time, how come those who were so keen to leave the EU didn& #39;t want to listen to those realities, but hope the world wasn& #39;t really like that?

Worth also noting on trade and Global Britain that our proposal to split agriculture quotas with the EU as part of our WTO membership has still not been agreed, three years after submission. Doesn& #39;t threaten our WTO membership, but not a particularly good sign.