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The agility of the UK to negotiate trade deals is far higher than that of the EU, where any one of the 28 nations is able to veto the deal. TTIP, a case in poin
by cbeach 10y ago
The agility of the UK to negotiate trade deals is far higher than that of the EU, where any one of the 28 nations is able to veto the deal. TTIP, a case in point.
And as Trump has made clear, post-Brexit, the UK is now at the front of the queue.
We're the World's fifth largest economy. We originated the language and many of the standards that the World uses to trade. We're not pretending to be a superpower, but we do have a reasonable chance at striking up free trade deals with all the Commonwealth countries. Especially as the Commonwealth was our own creation.