Article 492AK Post-Brexit trade partners ask UK to lower human rights standards

Post-Brexit trade partners ask UK to lower human rights standards

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Richard Partington
from Economics | The Guardian on (#492AK)

International trade secretary, Liam Fox, explains why limited progress has been made

Britain has received demands to roll back its human rights standards in exchange for progress on post-Brexit trade deals, including from some countries that ministers are pushing to secure agreements with.

In an admission that some countries have sought to extract a high price for their continuing to trade with Britain after leaving the EU, Liam Fox, the international trade secretary, said some nations had made the requests as part of talks.

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