‘Britain needs Charles to be our Brexit King’
PRINCE Charles is to celebrate 70 years as the Duke of Cornwall with a special tour this week – as a think tank calls on him to become the “Brexit King”.
He will head to the South West tomorrow with wife Camilla for a three-day tour of Devon and Cornwall to mark the anniversary of him being given the title.
There they will meet fishermen, farmers, charity workers and schoolchildren.
The tour comes as the Civitas think-tank proposed Charles become Britain’s “Brexit King” and use his royal clout to help win multi-million pound trade deals.
In a report on international trade it says it wants the Government to make more use of the Royals, arguing this is “something almost no other country can do”.
Civitas has calculated that in a decade Government-backed trade missions helped bring in £56billion.
It suggests that when Charles comes to the throne he should establish an exclusive “King’s Council” of export leaders.
A key call is for “big chunks” of the International Trade department to be privatised with responsibilities handed to British chief executives.
Frank Young, Civitas editorial director, said: “This report shows that Britain is falling behind the competition.
“We need to use our royals to bring jobs and cash to Britain and scrap woke royal tours.
“Charles needs to be the ‘Brexit King’ and lead the charge in winning mega deals from global investors in the way only British Royals can.”
On their tour of the South West, the Duke and Duchess will first visit the fishing village of Mousehole and be greeted by residents including Esme Page, who runs Cornwall Hugs Grenfell.
The charity provides holidays for families affected by the Grenfell Tower fire in London that claimed 72 lives in 2017.
Esme has also taken in a Ukrainian refugee from Odesa who is a professional singer and who will perform with the Mousehole Male Voice Choir.
In nearby Newlyn, Charles and Camilla will meet fishermen, to be followed later by a garden party with 600 guests.
On Tuesday, Charles will visit farmers in Launceston. Camilla, who is an active campaigner for improved literacy, will attend a primary school to meet children who read stories over the phone to vulnerable older people as part of the charity Silver Stories, of which she is patron.
For their final day they will meet staff and volunteers celebrating 200 years of the Torre Abbey Grounds in Torquay.