The decision to ditch the UK's Department for International Trade is testament to the failure of Brexit
- Written by Tony Heron, Professor of International Political Economy, University of York

The move to merge the UK government’s departments of trade and business has been likened by one journalist to rearranging the deckchairs on a sinking ship. But it is in fact a significant moment in the country’s foreign and economic policy – and a tacit acknowledgement that attempts to seize Brexit...