Right-wing paper rapped by fact-checkers over ‘significantly wrong’ report on EU
The piece, titled “Remoaners’ desperate warning incorrect as UK ditches EU exports” was…incorrect.
The piece, titled “Remoaners’ desperate warning incorrect as UK ditches EU exports” was…incorrect.
Gold is wreaking havoc with our export statistics.
Market distortion gives road freight an advantage over rail, causing uneccessary collisions, congestion, road damage and air pollution
We need reform if we are to compete in a globalised economy
The UK trade deficit is in its eighteenth year
Yesterday’s Budget did little to convince Unite and our members employed in manufacturing that the government has set a course to re-balance the UK economy.
Even with the car industry motoring ahead in investment and creating jobs, manufacturing employment is barely higher than three years previously.
Quantitative easing and ‘loose’ monetary policy have not been successful in boosting UK export performance.
So much for the recession being made in the Eurozone. The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that net trade is down and the largest fall in exports is to non-EU countries.
Will Straw explores the release of the UK’s trade figures today, and asks what they mean for the chancellor’s claim that the Eurozone is to blame for our shrinking GDP.