Trade: Ten years since Brexit

Name: Trade: Ten years since Brexit
Start: 2026-11-17T11:45:00+00:00
End: 2026-11-17T12:45:00+00:00
Location: Cinema 1, Watershed

Schedule

Tue Nov 17 2026 at 11:45 am to 12:45 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Cinema 1, Watershed | Bristol, EN

Is Brexit a dividend, or a disaster? In this session, we reveal what economists have learned in the decade since the UK's EU referendum.
About this Event

It is a decade since the Britain voted to leave the EU. What have economists learned—about trade and inflation, about tariffs and about industrial strategy—during this time? Is Brexit a dividend, or just a disaster? In this session, Soumaya Keynes and Ed Conway, both who have new books out that delve deep into trade will be joined by Mats Persson, who had a front row seat in Downing St during the Brexit negotiations.

Speakers:

Ed Conway (Sky News)
Soumaya Keynes (Financial Times)
Mats Persson (EY Parthenon)

Ed Conway is a writer and broadcaster. He is the Economics and Data Editor of Sky News and a regular columnist for The Times and Sunday Times. He has won numerous awards for his journalism and his book Material World was a Sunday Times bestseller and nominated for multiple prizes and books-of-the-year lists.

Soumaya Keynes is Economics Columnist at the Financial Times (FT) and author of 'How To Win A Trade War'. Prior to her role at the FT, she was the Britain Economics Editor at The Economist, where she shaped global understanding of complex economic issues. Drawing on firsthand experience as a Treasury policy advisor and research economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, she brings a practitioner’s perspective to how governments actually design and implement economic policy. She has also hosted the Money Talks and Trade Talks podcasts.

Mats Persson is a senior Partner in EY Parthenon, specialising in demand and scenario planning, macro and business economics, policy, energy transition, global supply chain disruption and growth strategies. He was Special Advisor to UK Prime Minister David Cameron (2015-16) and a senior member of the PM's EU negotiation team. Mats was also Chief Executive of Open Europe, a think-tank focussed on EU, eurozone, economic and trade policy with offices in London, Brussels and Berlin.

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