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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rowena Mason Whitehall editor

Flagship post-Brexit Australia trade deal ‘not actually very good’, MPs hear

Then Australian prime minister Scott Morrison and Boris Johnson in the garden at Downing Street in 2021 after agreeing the broad terms of a free trade deal.
Then Australian prime minister Scott Morrison and Boris Johnson in the garden at Downing Street in 2021 after agreeing the broad terms of a free trade deal. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA

The UK’s flagship post-Brexit trade deal with Australia is “not actually a very good deal”, former environment secretary George Eustice has said.

In highly critical comments, Eustice called for the resignation of Crawford Falconer, the interim permanent secretary for the Department for International Trade, telling the Commons Falconer “resented” people who understood technical trade issues better than him.

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