free trade agreements

We’re not going to getter better deals with the Commonwealth - or for that matter the US and China - by quitting the EU. We’ll do worse.

Yes, EU will ask countries like South Korea to keep their markets open to us during transition. But there’s no guarantee they’ll all agree.

PM seems close to making latest flip-flop: offering EU more money to break deadlock in Brexit talks. But that won’t secure good trade pact.

Liam Fox plays down “continuity” legislation as way to “guarantee stability”. It’s broader than that, and Parliament needs a say.

Trade minister can’t make formal agreements with the EU’s other trading partners, neither has he grasped the complexities.

Trade secretary is wasting time chasing phantoms. He should focus on humdrum task of making sure we don’t lose deals we already have.

Trade secretary used to trumpet comprehensive deal with US. Now he’s focusing on just services. Does he have a clue about what that means?

63% of our trade is with EU or countries it has deals with. Not only are we jeopardising this. In rest of world, we may go to back of queue.

Brexiters said new deals with rest of world would outweigh loss of trade to EU. We’ll actually lose ground in other countries too.

As talks falter and global trade deals slip further into the future, the government must get real over trade continuity after March 2019.

Getting a decent trade deal with the EU-27 is far more urgent than the distant prospect of a UK/US agreement

Brexit doesn’t just raise knotty issues over Scottish independence and the Irish border. Who will get powers reclaimed from the EU?