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Cecilia Ivardi and Linda Wanklin In Political Economy, we have historically examined the policies through which countries acquire skills as a national effort. Traditionally, skill provision has been considered a matter occurring within well-defined national borders. Scholars have investigated how economic elites secure the necessary skills and workforce for industries that foster economic growth (see […]

Brexit was never the will of the British people – it was the will of a frustrated minority, and even that support has now collapsed.

While President Trump brands his tariff-heavy economic policy as “Liberation Day,” it is, in truth, a declaration of a global trade war. His imposition of sweeping tariffs on most imports to the United States is provoking retaliatory tariffs on American exports – an economically self-harming spiral that will ultimately make everyone poorer, including Americans. In […]

Sixty-eight years ago, on 25 March 1957, the Treaty of Rome was signed by six European countries – France, Italy, West Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, and Luxembourg. It marked the birth of the European Economic Community, later known as the European Union. This ambitious new community emerged from the ruins of the Second World War, […]

The UK is grappling with its worst medicine shortage in four years, and the evidence points squarely at Brexit as a central cause.

The recent plan by President Ursula von der Leyen of a €150 billion European joint debt to fund the purchase of arms under the name ReArm Europe has sent shockwaves across the continent and beyond. The press announcement, made on March 4th, followed the infamous Oval Office meeting between US President Trump and Ukrainian President […]

Every year on 8 March, International Women’s Day celebrates the economic, cultural, political, and social achievements of women while also recognising the ongoing fight for gender equality. And 100 years is about how long it took for women in the United Kingdom to win the right to vote.

The grotesque spectacle of President Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance bullying and ambushing Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office on Friday, 28 February, has shocked Europe. In response, European leaders have adopted a firmer stance in support of Ukraine. From adversity, unity can emerge.

Months before the 2016 EU referendum, then-Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond admitted a fundamental truth: the Leave campaign couldn’t say what a vote for Brexit would mean. On that basis alone, the referendum should never have taken place in the form it did. Or, at the very least, the EU Referendum Act 2015 should have included a […]

When Theresa May became Prime Minister in the wake of the EU referendum on 23 June 2016, she was determined to push Brexit through as swiftly as possible. To do so, she planned to proceed without explicit parliamentary approval, arguing that the referendum had given her an undeniable mandate. Yet, by law, the referendum was […]