The Importance of Free Ports and Enterprise Zones in Britain

The Gulf and the Emirates is experiencing a similar extraordinary success story in this time not just because of oil prices. places like Thatcher's Britain are looking at them looking at East Asia and saying how can we bring that import that model in. The idea of creating sectors of the economy that are liberated from normal regulations that are given special tax treatment was something Margaret Thatcher wanted to roll out in her first budget in 1980. It's almost embarrassingly easy to connect the dots actually when you see same super annuated elderly British think tanker who was part of Thatcher's team in 1979 is literally still sitting on the advisory board for Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss and Forrest Johnson in the 2020s.