Trade department may have broken EU rules with 'pro-Brexit' contract criteria

Experts says Department for International Trade's 'cultural fit' criteria are too subjective to comply with procurement rules

Liam Fox's Department for International Trade may have broken EU procurement rules by specifying in advertisements that contractors must support Brexit.

Albert Sanchez-Graells, senior lecturer in law at Bristol University law school, said the "cultural fit" criteria, included in two advertisements asking tech firms to bid for work with government, were too subjective to comply with EU procurement rules.