Behind the ‘inclusive’ window dressing, the NZ-UK free trade deal disappoints politically and economically
- Written by Jane Kelsey, Professor of Law, University of Auckland

The free trade agreement (FTA) signed between New Zealand and the United Kingdom this week demonstrates the intransigence of political leaders and their official advisers in the face of concerted demands to rethink the country’s trade policy paradigm.
Those demands reached a high point with the deeply unpopular Comprehensive and...