Businessman bangs drum for trade
REIDsteel managing director Simon Boyd is set to appear at a major fringe event alongside the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester.
He will sit on a panel with former Trade Secretary Peter Lilley and Yeovil MP Marcus Fysh to debate British trade after Brexit.
It is one of three fringe events being held by the Global Britain group on Monday September 30 at Manchester’s Free Trade Hall.
Mr Boyd, who sits on the CBI’s manufacturing council, said: “This is the perfect opportunity to bang the drum for free trade within earshot of those in power.
“Brexit gives us a once in a generation opportunity to redefine our global trading relationships and prosper on the world stage.”
Mr Boyd wrote the forward to a ‘Fact not Friction’ paper by Global Britain and the European Research […]