Ministers are desperate to sign new trade deals after damaging the UK economy with Brexit.
A CERTAIN dreary and dismal familiarity has developed around the Tories’ desperate efforts to secure trade deals with countries outwith the European Union, having decided to turn their back on the UK’s biggest export market.
Ministers warned against trade deal with Gulf states over ‘appalling’ human rights record
22/06/2022
Trade secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan kicking off talks in Saudi Arabia.
Britain increases arms exports to world’s most repressive regimes by nearly a third since Brexit vote
14/01/2018
Britain has dramatically increased the value of weaponry and defence equipment it sells to the world’s most repressive regimes since vows by senior ministers to expand arms exports after the Brexit vote.