Edward Cartwright is a Professor of Economics at De Montfort University, Leicester, and director of the Institute for Applied Economics and Social Value. Having grown up in the West Midlands he spent time in Durham, Paris, and around 15 years in Kent before moving to the East Midlands. His academic research covers a range of topics including the motives behind charitable giving, and methods to improve cyber-security in small businesses.
Recent weeks have seen a flurry of bad news for those in Kent on how Brexit will affect the county: queues at the border, permits for lorries to enter, hastily built lorry parks and rows of Portaloos. Predictable though this may all have been, Kent voted to leave the European Union (EU) during the 2016 […]