Price, a former managing director of Waitrose, was due to pilot the government’s free trade bill through the House of Lords in the spring, but said he was not prepared to make the four-year commitment required to make a success of devising a new trade policy for the UK outside the EU. Speaking to the Wine and Spirit Trade Association conference, he said he regarded the Brexit vote “as a symptom of people’s concerns about their day-to-day problems. Brexit will not solve those problems.” Price said: “I think the country is going to be even more disrupted and even more subject to competitive pressures.” The causes of ... (full story)