Mark Prisk
The government remains confident that it can strike new deals when we leave the EU. But as one government trade envoy explains here, we are not going to get everything we want, post-Brexit. What’s more, as the shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs points out, other countries are members of their own economic blocs—in striking new trade deals, we might well end up exchanging one set of rules for several others
Next year, for the first time in over 40 years, we will be able to negotiate and sign our own trade agreements with other independent nations. I see this as a great opportunity, though not without risk, that we should embrace.