This afternoon I will be conducting a focus group with a number of Chevening alumni from a variety of professional backgrounds (press, law, trade, political) to discuss how they perceive UK as a partner in the EU.
I look forward to a two-hour long discussion, and hope at the end of it we come up with a list of top three objectives on how to improve local perceptions by September 2014. Some of the questions I will raise during the brainstorming include:
– If you were to press the fast forward button, jumping over the next 18 months, what would be the top three improvements you would like to see about perceptions of the UK as a partner in the EU?
– What would be the key risks to achieving them?
What other question do you think I should bring up? And what would be your take on the couple of questions above?