While Boris Johnson, the likely successor to British Prime Minister Theresa May, takes his country down a path of diminished trade, the European Union is negotiating one of the largest free-trade agreements in the world. One really has to wonder what the "buccaneering" Brexiteers have to complain about.

The man who used to run the WTO says the EU single market, set up by Margaret Thatcher, is ‘the top league’.

The EU is one of Vietnam’s biggest trading partners, accounting for nearly a one-fifth of the country’s exports.