Trade expert Shanker Singham calls for India focus in UK’s Brexit strategy

• Sarwar Alam
• 27 September, 2018

By: Sarwar Alam

A leading trade expert has called on the British government to look at Brexit as more of a global event and make trade talks with countries like India central to the UK’s post-Brexit strategy. Shanker Singham, the director of the International Trade and Competition Unit at the London-based Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) think tank and author of a new report titled ‘Plan A+: Creating a prosperous post-Brexit UK’, foresees a post-Brexit UK-India trade deal as time-consuming but “feasible”. “This plan offers a comprehensive approach which shouldn’t be considered a ‘Plan B’, but rather a ‘Plan A+’ for Brexit,” said…

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