As Economic Secretary to the Treasury, I know that he has a tried and tested record of promoting financial services.
Those preparing to block No Deal should add our final report, to be released this week, to their summer reading list.
The UK – US relationship will roll on, despite his insults to our Ambassdor. To suggest otherwise is leadership election positioning, not real politics.
Over the past three years, we have seen large chunks of our bureaucracy – civil servants, quangocrats and other officials – working to frustrate the referendum result.
From South Carolina to Singapore, and from Dubai to Dalian, growth is supercharged by creating areas inside a country, which fall outside of its customs border.
Leavers insist correctly that the EU is a political project first and foremost. Which helps to explain why this scheme is unlikely to fly.
The President says the “tremendous potential” of such a deal might double or triple current trade.
The President’s support for Johnson may do the latter no good among voters, but it’s likely to do him no harm among another electorate – Tory activists.
I see the former WTO director and Delors chef de Cabinet return to the unresolved debate about high or low alignment.
He suggests that Western observers very often misread the situation in developing countries in a manner which deprives the latter of agency and opportunity.
A series of mini-deal, plus unilateral preparations by the UK, mean that most of the building blocks for a managed No Deal are already in place.
The EU asks: what do you want? But the Commons has said what it wants. Namely, the so-called Brady Amendment.
The primary motivation to strike a fair agreement with the UK will be to apply pressure to the EU.