The EU Reset would not increase UK agrifood exports, but it would drive up UK beef prices, reduce...
Author - Catherine McBride
The Remain Zombies’ Pantomime
Brexit trade myths debunked in this detailed analysis by Catherine McBride, challenging claims...
Headfirst into the jaws of defeat
The European Commission has published its demands for the UK's 'Reset,' which are, astonishingly...
Starmer’s trade roller coaster
There is nothing good about the EU Reset. The defence agreement will cost more than it's worth. The...
Brexit – the scapegoat for everything
Brexit has become a convenient scapegoat for bad government policies that have undermined UK...
The 16 dumbest things your MP has said about trade.
From fake stats to fantasy economics, this article unpacks 16 jaw-dropping trade blunders made by...
Trump is making a list
Trump’s new tariffs are a very clever geostrategic manoeuvre, and the UK government should rejoice...
Trump, Tariffs, and the OBR
A brief analysis of how a US-UK trade war will hurt the UK economy, why a high trade intensity is...
The Only Reset UK Trade Needs
SPS alignment will not change our agrifood trade statistics because this will not alter the rules...
Another attempt to turn the UK into an EU Colony
The CITP paper promoting dynamic alignment with the EU’s SPS regulations is full of half-truths...
Telling lies on Brexit
Briefings for Britain has for years combatted the distortions and falsehoods of ‘Project Fear’...
The lie that travelled around the world
Aston Business School’s latest trade paper is shockingly error strewn: from not spotting that a...
The CPTPP: a benefit of Brexit
Britain is now a party to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific...
How to recognise Misinformation on Brexit
Catherine McBride exposes the defects in a recent scholarly article on the impact of Brexit on UK...
Myth #5: The UK Australian Trade deal was rushed, hurts British...
Despite the complaints by some Remainers, the UK Australia Trade Agreement extensively protects UK...
Myth #4: The UK needs a veterinary agreement to trade with the EU
The UK exports a very small amount of unprocessed agricultural products to the EU, and it has...
Myth #3: The UK has walked away from its largest trading partner
In the third in this series of puncturing Remainer claims about the impact of Brexit, Catherine...
Brexit Myths no.2 The OBR and Trade
In the second in our series rebutting the worst Brexit myths, we review the OBR’s obsession with...
Myths on the Impact of Brexit
The editorial team at Briefings For Britain will be publishing a series of rebuttals to some of the...
What has Brexit ever done for us?
Brexit has returned sovereignty to the UK - its most important attribute. But it also means we must...
If the UK wants to export goods, they are going to need cheaper...
With the hoo-ha last week about whether Kemi Badenoch used deflated prices in her speech, no one...
Hear, hear for suspended food tariffs
The UK has finally suspended its tariffs on tropical fruit and nuts, citrus fruit juices, and even...
More propaganda from the FT
The FT is determined to convince its video viewers that the UK needs to rejoin the EU. This time...
Lies, damned lies and FT propaganda.
I would have expected the Financial Times (FT) to have given up on its Anti Brexit Propaganda by...
Goldman Sachs: Wrong on Brexit.
A recent research paper by Goldman Sachs claims that the UK’s economy had significantly...
Did the Observer’s Food Critic know he was spreading propaganda?
Despite the hoo-ha about the new border checks, only 23% of UK food comes from the EU and much of...
Steel yourselves, you might not like this.
The UK is not self-sufficient in steel as we import the principal ingredients. Recycling the steel...
David Smith is Wrong on Brexit
Catherine McBride rebuts David Smith’s lazy opinion piece, written with out-of-date data from a...
The cost of asylum and how to reduce it.
The scale and cost of illegal migration into the UK are laid bare by Catherine McBride
It is a myth that Brexit has damaged UK German trade
The German Finance Minister recently told the BBC that the UK was buying fewer German goods because...
Why shouldn’t the UK benefit from cheaper food?
It is a myth that cheaper importer food is produced to lower standards. It is a myth that the CPTPP...
Protecting the Golden Goose, Financial and business services in...
Catherine McBride describes the huge importance of financial and business services to UK trade but...
Woke regulation is killing capitalism.
The closure of Nigel Farage’s bank account is a warning to us all that pernicious forces are...
Trade with EU doing fine
Seven years after the vote to Leave the EU, UK trade is mostly unchanged. Possibly because EU...
Three cheers for Tony Blair – the unsung hero of Brexit
The spectacular miscalculation by the Blair Government of how many Eastern EU immigrants would move...
EU jam tomorrow?
According to a report in The Telegraph, the EU is proposing to change the fruit content...
Overlooked benefits from the UK Australia trade deal
Free trade, whether with the EU or with non-EU countries, is hugely beneficial for the UK economy...
More dubious Brexit claims – this time about imported EU food...
An updated paper from the CEP claims that 30% of the UK’s recent inflation was due to Brexit...
More fake Brexit news – this time from The Guardian
The Guardian is trying to pretend that the UK is a large fruit exporting nation and that this trade...
The UK’s environment laws, Retained EU Law Bill and yet more BBC...
The BBC’s Countryfile, various conservation organisations and even The House of Lords all seem to...
What the FT didn’t tell you about UK exports and the G7
The Financial times seems to have used every trick in the misinformation handbook to mislead its...
CPTPP MythBusters
There are many myths about the CPTPP circulating on the internet and some have even been repeated...
A brief history of hypocrisy.
Northern Ireland’s history is as long and as complex as that of the United States. Rather than...
A hoo-ha about British bangers
Trade expert Dr Catherine McBride argues that EU fears about non-compliant imports crossing an...
What’s wrong with claims of a ‘£1tn export failure’? Just about...
The recent Guardian article lamenting that the UK ‘will be 15 years late in hitting £1tn annual...
Who caused the problems for our labour market?
Catherine McBride questions the Labour Party’s attitudes to Brexit when it is clearly the free...
Don’t blame it on Brexit.
Bloomberg recently published an article by Philip Aldrick and Andrew Atkinson entitled The Economic...
F is for Food – a primer on trade for George Eustice
Mr George Eustice, sometime Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, has...
Carney v Portes. Does it Matter?
It was disingenuous for a former Governor of the Bank of England to compare the UK economy...
Who’s really talking?
Markets don’t talk – those voices are coming from your television. The talking heads of mainstream...