As May’s proposed deal with the EU dominates headlines, her trade secretary was talking up a different deal this week, with Trump’s America. It’s not the first time.
In July, Liam Fox gave a lecture to the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at the conservative US think tank the Heritage Foundation. In Washington, the international trade secretary spoke passionately about his belief in free trade and talked up the chances of “frictionless trade” across the Atlantic.
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