Thinktank offers €100,000 prize for best 'Brexit' plan

The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) is holding a competition to find the best plan for a 'Brexit' - a UK exit from the European Union.

The thinktank is offering a Brexit Prize which will award €100,000 (£86,525) for the winning blueprint for a UK exit from the EU following an imagined referendum. Entrants must set out what measures the UK would have to take in the two years post exit, both domestically and in relation to the EU and the rest of the world, in order to promote a "free and prosperous economy". "This competition is designed to examine the process of withdrawal and, more importantly, how the UK might fit into the fresh geo-political and economic landscape that would follow," the organisation said. Submi...