Brexit Diary: The Brexit Boost Comes Into View, as Lord David Frost Echoes Adam Smith Before a Committee in the Commons

The Biden administration hasn’t been much of a help, Lord Frost reckons, but the ‘politics in America could change.’

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Lord David Frost at Brussels, November 19, 2021. AP/Geert Vanden Wijngaert

“Little else is required to carry a state to the highest degree of affluence from the lowest barbarism,” Adam Smith mused, “but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice.”

Lord David Frost echoed such optimism this week, at remarks before a Business and Trade committee of the House of Commons. He was thinking particularly about the prospects of concluding a free trade agreement with America.

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