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‘UK’s Trade Deals Show How the World is Evolving in Response to the Trump Shock’

It has been amusing to watch the Conservatives and their media cheerleaders tie themselves up in knots over how to respond to Labour’s success in concluding two trade deals with America and India in the space of a week.

When they were in government, the Tories would have given their eye teeth to have secured deals with the world’s first and fifth-largest economies. These were prized as the ultimate validation of their Brexit vision of ‘Global Britain’ – not least because deals with America and India had long eluded the European Union. Indeed, during the EU Referendum campaign, some leave campaigners talked of little else.

Yet, now it seems these deals were not so important after all.

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