• Did the government undertake an assessment of leaving the customs union before the cabinet took that decision?

    Not a quantitative one, no, says Davis.

    My old boss always used to say something along the lines of 'if you haven't made a decision based on a quantitative model, then you haven't made a decision'. I mean, granted, he was a quant, so this was possibly a little over the top.

    However, I'm not sure what Davis's role was if not to at least prepare something (if nothing else, a shitty one to cover his own arse for these kind of inquests).

  • I'd like to know what the qualitative study said. It doesn't strike me as a research question particularly well suited to ethnographic approaches.

  • Not a quantitative one, no, says Davis.

    Although this could just be wiggle words. I can imagine a follow up that goes "A qualitative one then?" and him responding "No, not one of those either."

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