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Why Labour’s 'buy British' plan is not going to succeed

  • Written by Alejandro Riaño, Senior Lecturer in Economics, City, University of London

The Labour Party has unveiled “make, sell and buy more in Britain” as its post-Brexit vision for the UK. As set out by shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves, one of the key proposals is to use public procurement more strategically to award a greater number of public contracts to British companies. As she put it, we should be...