‘Brexit is a rejection of globalisation’ (Larry Elliott, Guardian, 26th June 2016). Larry Elliott’s claim about the causes of Brexit is stark, but one echoed, if usually in slightly more qualified fashion, by many other commentators. For example, in her Sylvia Ostry lecture in September 2016, Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the IMF, put forward … Continue reading Brexit: blame it on the loss of industrial jobs, not on globalisation