I recommend our diplomats & ministers read this book it will provide them with an intellectual backbone On the big calls Bootle has a spectacularly good record Dominic Lawson The Sunday Times Bootle is right on every count The Guardian HOW BREXIT WILL WORK FOR BRITAIN & EUROPEMaking a Success of Brexit & Reforming the EU is the extensively revised & expanded post-Brexit edition of the acclaimed The Trouble with Europe Following Britain's vote to leave the EU & the ensuing uncertainty in both Europe & the UK here one of Britain's best known economists Roger Bootle charts a way forward for all For Leavers & Remainers alike this book analyses the choices the UK faces about its relationship with the EU
- & the rest of the world It discusses the key issues concerning a 'hard' or 'soft' Brexit Free Trade Agreements the Single Market & the Customs Union as well as the principles & pitfalls of the negotiating process Meanwhile with or without Brexit the EU faces an existential crisis It needs to choose between three different paths radical reform further integration or break-up This book assesses the costs & benefits of each concluding with a version of how the world would look without the EU Bootle's exemplary outline of the origins & historical context of the EU is retained from the previous edition where he acknowledges the remarkable achievements of the EU before laying out the shortcomings which have led to the parting of the ways with Britain This is the essential read as the Brexit negotiations progress