Anna Soubry Quotes
How can we have 'freer' free trade? Let's get real, for God's sake.
Soubry, Anna. Interview. Newsnight, BBC Two, 20 Feb. 2018.
Democratic politicians of that era mostly opposed free trade because the experience ever since NAFTA showed that many manufacturing jobs were lost in the United States although many new jobs were created but few of these were good paying jobs that Americans with limited educations could perform as they were able to with manufacturing jobs. And during that period, the requirements for fair trade and foreign workers rights have been very poorly enforced. The Democrats split between those who thought that new trade treaties could be negotiated and enforced, correcting the problems of the past, and those who did not believe that such proper free trade was very likely.
Anna Mary Soubry is a British barrister, journalist and former politician who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Broxtowe in Nottinghamshire from 2010 to 2019. Originally elected as a Conservative, she left the party to join Change UK in 2019.