🚨 NEW REPORT: UK TRADE 2024 🚨 📊 Using new 2023 Office for National Statistics (ONS) data we find: 🚛 Brexit hitting UK trade 👩‍💻 But services trade resilient 🤝 Driven by "boom" in business services trade Read now for a full assessment of UK post-Brexit trade performance. 🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/reports/uk-tra…

👀 Read the report in full now: ukandeu.ac.uk/reports/uk-tra… 💻 And then tune into today’s special UKICE Lunch Hour to hear an expert panel discuss all this & more. ✨ With Emily Fry, Sarah Hall, Sam Lowe, Jonathan Portes, and Stephen Hunsaker. ukandeu.ac.uk/events/ukice-l…

🗣️ "It is extremely unlikely the UK will be able to make any changes that would have a similar effect to rejoining the single market and customs union." 👉 Our trade expert Stephen Hunsaker spoke with the Daily Express about our latest trade report. express.co.uk/news/politics/…

🛳️ What happened to UK-EU trade in 2023? Stephen Hunsaker takes stock. ✍️ He highlights that trade with the EU grew as a share of total UK trade in 2023, but this was largely due to a fall in non-EU trade – particularly with China and Norway. ukandeu.ac.uk/what-happened-…

Unsurprisingly trade is not a prominent issue in this election, and it likely has to do with how tied it is to Brexit. Something neither party wants to discuss.

💥After weeks of debates, policy launches & polls, election day is almost upon us🗳️. With 650 mini contests taking place around the country🇬🇧, it might be hard to know where to focus your attention👀 - so we’ve come up with our list of ‘seats to watch’: ukandeu.ac.uk/general-electi…

It is a hard sell to convince people that they are better off just because inflation has risen by 2%. People remember what they paid for a pint in 2020 and that prices are now 21% higher. People won't feel like celebrating these lower figures for quite a while.

"It will invest significantly less than what was actually being invested in the UK prior to Brexit" 🖊️ Stephen Hunsaker unpacks Labour's National Wealth Fund and compares it to the levels of investment the UK was receiving from the European Investment Bank. ukandeu.ac.uk/is-labours-nat…

Brilliant work by Sophie Stowers on this massive report!

encompass-europe.com/comment/the-uk… Stephen Hunsaker UK in a Changing Europe #investment #InvestmentSummit

And today chart. Startling UK in a Changing Europe Stephen Hunsaker research show £44bn “loss” from UK leaving European Investment Bank ukandeu.ac.uk/the-uk-has-pot…

🔴 Had the UK stayed in the EU it would have received similar levels of EIB financing as France. 🔴On this assumption, UK annual public investment could have, potentially, been 73% higher had the UK not left the EU. 🔴 In real terms, that amounts to a potential loss of over

Wednesday I was depressed. Thursday I rage-wrote and LabourList was kind enough to publish my thoughts post-US election.

Re-upping this tweet from four years ago as a perfect farewell. Follow me at @hunsaker.bsky.social