ramping up the rhetoric — president trump and apple shares rise as earnings now, it s five years to the day that the uk officially britain outside of the eu — free to form its own trading relationships with the world — liberated from the restrictions of membership to europe s political and economic consequences.

last year s anniversary was marked with a government report outlining the benefits of brexit. the new labour pm, sir keir starmer, is looking for a "reset". earlier, i asked the trade economist i think it simple. there is no sign of immediate sign of an economic dividend. if you at dividend. if you look at the we have seen over dredictions we have seen over years of lower productivity exports 7 exports imports j exports imports gdp; jexports imports gdp; we all of are in a situation where all of those indicators lower those in’difattjrsare lower and are those in’dioetorsere lower end are very those in’disetorsere lower end are very sluggish. we are they are very sluggish. we are not seeing the economic dividend. dr rebecca harding, s-ueakin dividend. dr rebecca harding, speaking to — dividend. dr rebecca harding,

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to the us now — and we're all asking, will he, won't he, — as the self imposed deadline set by president trump speaking on thursday, the president said it was yet to be decided if oil would be included in the 25% tariff we will announcing the tariffs on and mexico tariffs on canada and mexico for a of reasons. number is people — ri into our country is a import into our country is a horribly and so much. number dru-s drugs have come two, the drugs that have come into the country and number three, the massive subsidies we are giving to canada mexico §f§ fiisififi es ssfisas assesses the st fiisififi es ssfisas sfiefisgifi the of deficits. st éislfifi es ssfisas sfiefisgifi the of deficits. and i puttin7g77777 as i: putting the tariff of will be potting the tariff of on canada and separately 25% on canada and separately on mexico. we have to do 25% on mexico. we have to do that because we have very with those countries. may or 7 may or may not those tariffs may or may not rise with time.

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