What was claimed: The UK has secured new free trade deals with over 70 countries since 2016, worth over £800 billion in new global trade. / Most of these deals were rolled over from existing EU agreements following Brexit. The figure refers to the total value of trade between the UK and countries it has agreed trade deals with—not the value that they add.
Michael Gove criticised for wrongly claiming EHIC and Erasmus will survive ‘for a period’ after no-deal Brexit
09/12/2020
‘It’s astonishing that the man in charge of our Brexit policy should completely mislead the public on two major issues of concern’