Liam Fox to offer UK firms help to export more after Brexit

Trade secretary hopes package of measures will transform UK into an 'exporting superpower'

Liam Fox is to unveil a plan intended to increase Britain's exports after Brexit to 35% of GDP as his cabinet counterpart Dominic Raab heads to Brussels for the latest round of divorce talks with the European Union.

The international trade secretary believes there are 400,000 UK businesses that could export but do not, and will try to target them with better loans, guarantees and support - and ask businesses to spell out what barriers to trade they face.

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