With the CBI Director-General representing the business community, Ben Digby explains how members have the chance to help shape new trade policy.
In August last year, the CBI joined forces with the TUC, Trade Justice Movement, Which?, International Chamber of Commerce, Unite and many others to publish this short paper on the principles we wanted to underpin any future governance model for developing trade policy in the UK after Brexit.
At the time, it didn't get huge amounts of press. But what we did achieve was a nod of approval from the Department of International Trade and a commitment to consider our proposals carefully when developing their plans for trade governance.
Fast forward nine months and we now have concrete plans in the form of proposals announced last week for the creation of a new Strategic Trade Advisory Group (STAG) which will act as a sounding board for the Trade Policy Minister on future negotiations and policy. Carolyn Fairbairn, our Director-General, will be representing the views of the business community as part of the new group.
This is welcome progress. But it also raises a few questions
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