For a global power, the new-found freedom to pursue an independent trade policy is a huge bonus, and will enable Britain to reconnect with the wider world. Photo: AFP For a global power, the new-found freedom to pursue an independent trade policy is a huge bonus, and will enable Britain to reconnect with the wider world. Photo: AFP
For a global power, the new-found freedom to pursue an independent trade policy is a huge bonus, and will enable Britain to reconnect with the wider world. Photo: AFP
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Grenville Cross

Post-Brexit Britain free to pursue global vision, strike trade deals with the world, and usher in golden era with China

  • Britain has unique advantages, such as the London financial centre and a queen who is head of state in 15 countries, and is China’s natural trading partner. Free of the EU, Britain is ready to take full advantage of its trading opportunities

Grenville Cross
Grenville Cross

Updated: 11:00am, 31 Jan, 2020

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For a global power, the new-found freedom to pursue an independent trade policy is a huge bonus, and will enable Britain to reconnect with the wider world. Photo: AFP For a global power, the new-found freedom to pursue an independent trade policy is a huge bonus, and will enable Britain to reconnect with the wider world. Photo: AFP
For a global power, the new-found freedom to pursue an independent trade policy is a huge bonus, and will enable Britain to reconnect with the wider world. Photo: AFP
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Grenville Cross

Grenville Cross

Grenville Cross SC is a criminal justice analyst, a barrister (Queen’s counsel and senior counsel), and vice-chairman of the senate of the International Association of Prosecutors. He is sentencing editor of Hong Kong Cases and Archbold Hong Kong, and co-author of Sentencing in Hong Kong. He was the director of public prosecutions from 1997 to 2009.