Liam Fox: WTO on ‘precipice,’ needs political clout to make progress

The World Trade Organization must be pulled back from the precipice of irrelevance and political weakness, says the United Kingdom’s nominee to lead it – arguing he would do so by making the global case for free trade, the multilateral rules-based system and what the world would lose without them. Liam Fox, a member of Parliament and the UK’s former trade secretary, has placed his political background – particularly his unique profile as the only candidate who is an elected...