What the European Commission proposes is not rules-based trade but managed trade, with Commission technocrats pulling the strings to favour EU industrialization.
There is no question that free trade prospects in the UK are lagging, but there is more at stake than simply the arrest of British economic growth. A free economy gives rise to virtuous citizenry, promotes desirable social ends by means of employment, and reduces poverty—noble goals that were developed over the last two centuries.
Sharia councils claim they help Muslim women attain religious divorce, but this may leave them vulnerable and without any legal protection.
