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2 months ago | 
cityam.com | Ben Ramanauskas |Sean Phillips |Anna Moloney
| Starmer must make a deal to avoid Trump’s pharma tariffs or risk a major hit to the NHS and the UK’s leading pharmaceutical industry, write Ben Ramanauskas and Sean PhillipsLast week, President Trump warned of “a major tariff”: up to 25 per cent on pharmaceutical products entering the United States.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
capx.co | Ben Ramanauskas
13 January 2025 @BenRamanauskas Photo: JADE GAOJADE GAO/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Photo: JADE GAOJADE GAO/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Local residents know what their areas need, not Whitehall mandarins The Government is taking the wrong approach to raising more money Done the right way, tourist taxes could benefit the UK It has been reported that Rachel Reeves has floated the idea of introducing a ‘hotel tax’ which, as the name suggests, would be paid by hotel guests. Many on the centre-right...
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
conservativehome.com | Ben Ramanauskas
Ben Ramanauskas has worked in academia and as an adviser to the government. He is currently writing a book on the UK economy. Without warning and with no time to prepare, I found myself becoming an unpaid carer last year. It was, without a doubt, the most stressful period of my life. I navigated new responsibilities which I was very much ill-suited for.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
capx.co | Ben Ramanauskas
Jonathan Reynolds is Secretary of State for Business and Trade. Photo: Rasid Necati Aslim/Anadolu via Getty ImagesJonathan Reynolds is Secretary of State for Business and Trade.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
capx.co | Ben Ramanauskas
Biden wasn't that interested in trade deals – all that is about to change A US-UK trade deal would let hard-pressed households buy more affordable food An FTA with the US could help the UK shake up the global trading system In 2020, when she was then Secretary of State for International Trade, Liz Truss went to Washington D.C. to meet with President Donald Trump as part of the UK government’s negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between our two countries and to also tackle a few...
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
capx.co | Ben Ramanauskas
Our trading choice is not between the US and the EU, but between the US and China When she visits China, Rachel Reeves must be clear that the UK will always side with free trade and democracy China is a country with huge potential, but it is being ruined by freedom-crushing Communists In the aftermath of the Second World War, Britain was victorious but broke.
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
capx.co | Ben Ramanauskas
12 December 2024 @BenRamanauskas Photo: Getty Images A UK-Mercosur trade deal would give us tariff-free access to hundreds of millions of consumers Having an independent trade policy is the main ‘Brexit dividend’ We must stop viewing international trade as a zero-sum game It has taken a quarter of a century, but the EU and the Mercosur bloc of countries comprising Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay (Venezuela is currently suspended) have, in theory, agreed terms on a trade deal....
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
capx.co | Ben Ramanauskas
26 November 2024 @BenRamanauskas Photo by PABLO PORCIUNCULA/AFP via Getty Images Photo by PABLO PORCIUNCULA/AFP via Getty Images One year on, Javier Milei's radical reforms are starting to work Argentina shows the benefits of sound money, deregulation and free trade The UK should follow Milei's example and resist protectionism It’s almost exactly one year since Javier Milei took office as President of Argentina. Given his tendency to wield a chainsaw and make controversial statements,...
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
capx.co | Ben Ramanauskas
Biden wasn't that interested in trade deals – all that is about to change A US-UK trade deal would let hard-pressed households buy more affordable food An FTA with the US could help the UK shake up the global trading system In 2020, when she was then Secretary of State for International Trade, Liz Truss went to Washington D.C. to meet with President Donald Trump as part of the UK government’s negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between our two countries and to also tackle a few...
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
conservativehome.com | Ben Ramanauskas
Ben Ramanauskas has worked in academia and as an adviser to the government. He is currently writing a book on the UK economyAlthough it has not yet been confirmed, it looks likely that Rachel Reeves will use her first Budget as Chancellor to announce changes to the UK’s ‘Fiscal Rules’ to allow for more borrowing. The rationale behind this is to allow the Government to increase investment but in a way that doesn’t further increase the tax burden on working people.
