Singapore-on-Thames

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1. UKeconomicsA proposed model for the United Kingdom after Brexit, involving laissez-faire free trade unencumbered by regulation.

   […]the fact that Britain has had lower growth per capita than all G7 countries other than Germany and Canada suggests that leaving the EU hasn't exactly led to the promised “Singapore-on-Thames”.

   2026 June 13, Philip Gordon, “Ten years after”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9

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   The idea that London might have a post-Brexit future as a kind of deregulated “Singapore-on-Thames” is one of the more curious notions to have emerged in the three and a half years since the UK’s citizens voted narrowly to leave the EU in the fateful June 2016 referendum.

   2019 December 17, Howard Davies, “Will the UK really turn into 'Singapore-on-Thames' after Brexit?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN