Business community decries ‘act of arson’ as one-seventh of trade posts within British consulates in the US are scrapped America was meant to be Britain’s route to the sunlit uplands of Brexit. Then, after hopes of a free trade deal evaporated, successive Conservative governments have set their sights lower, by trying to forge closer ties with individual US states.Now the civil servants responsible for delivering those state-level deals have been let go, in what a furious British businessman described as “an act of arson”. Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/29/disbelief-as-us-uk-trade-deals-under-threat-after-britain-axes-negotiators
Author : James Tapper
Publish date : 2024-06-29 22:09:34
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