Anand Menon
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138 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 14 Sep
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So they will have an immediate impact on trade, I think, should they become elected.
They haven't spoken about this as yet, so there's no clear policy on this.
What I would say is, I think what we can expect is that the relationship between the UK and the EU continues.
will turn much chillier with a reformed government with Nigel Farage in charge, and that will have repercussions on the relationship across the piece, I would say.
Remember, one of the things we've seen since Brexit is a significant increase in trade between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
And that's because of the Windsor framework.
So I think any government's going to have to think long and hard before tampering with that.
Well, I think Nigel Farage came to prominence as a Eurosceptic, so we can expect the tone to become a lot chillier.
We can probably expect to go back to the days in British politics when being at loggerheads with the European Union was seen as good politics, which is something that Keir Starmer has moved us a long, long way from.
Well, the impact on UK-Irish trade has been quite interesting in the sense that a lot of Irish exports, which used to come either directly to the UK or to the UK on the way to the European Union, now go directly on ferries to the European Union.
So Irish exports to the UK have suffered.
What we've seen is an increase in UK-Ireland trade, but that is driven almost solely by the increase in Northern Ireland-Ireland trade because with the Windsor Framework, that trading relationship has become a lot stronger now
I think trade between Northern Ireland and the Republic used to make up about 10% of UK-Irish trade.
Post-Brexit, it's about 25%.
Well, it's because of the Windsor Agreement plus the fact that Brexit means that trading directly between the UK and the EU has become more difficult because of all the checks that have been put in place.
Well, I think the key thing will be these negotiations that are starting now between the UK and the EU on agriculture.
They're trying to strike a deal that means there will be no need for checks on agri-food imports and exports between the UK and the EU.
And that will make life easier for importers and exporters on both sides of the RSC.
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