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Podcast: The Bunker â News without the nonsense
Episode: Freeports: saviours of trade or political smoke and mirrors? â with Dmitry Grozoubinski
Description: Freeports! They were going to be a huge Brexit benefit (they werenât). Boris Johnson said we couldnât have them while we were in the EU (he was lying). Labour was going to announce more in the latest Budget and thenâŚÂ didnât (âcock up in the comms,â it says here). But what are they? Do tax-free zones really benefit deprived areas? Or are they havens for money-laundering and tax avoidance?  Trade expert Dmitry Grozoubinski explains the long history and cloudy future of special economic zones to Andrew Harrison.  â˘Â Order Dmitr...