Yasmin Alibhai-Brown was right to question the wisdom of
advocating the Commonwealth as a replacement trade bloc for the EU. While there are arguably service sector gains
to be made from free trade pacts with parts of the Commonwealth, gains in terms
of imports and exports would be limited.
Geography would impose an extra cost on imports and exports with
regards to markets in Australia and even
Canada for example. A friend of mine who
owns a haulage business put it well. He
claimed that it is a lot more useful for him to have free movement of goods and
people to France than it would be to have the same to India.
Regards
Zac Barker
Bristol
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