Guardian Live: What is TTIP and how does it affect us?

This week, Guardian Membership held a debate among an expert panel and a room full of Guardian Members eager to pick apart the TTIP trade agreement between the EU and the US. So, was there any agreement?

London's Conway Hall was the venue for a Guardian Membership event held this week to debate the pros and cons of TTIP. The discussion was chaired by Guardian economics editor Larry Elliott and the panel comprised Claude Moraes, Labour MEP; Owen Tudor, head of European Union and International Relations, TUC; John Hilary, executive director of charity War on Want; and Vicky Pryce, chief economic adviser at the Centre for Economics and Business Research. There was also a room full of impassioned Guardian members. So what did we learn?

So what is TTIP?

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