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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Toby Helm Political Editor

Government to seek global trade deals for UK at expense of formal EU re-entry

Huge cranes load containers on to ships in Japan
The Aomi container terminal in Tokyo: Japan is the wealthiest member of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership. Photograph: Kimimasa Mayama/EPA

The business and trade secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, has signalled a new twin-track approach to UK trade policy, in which the Labour government will pursue closer ties with the European Union while at the same time seeking new global partnerships further afield.

Writing for the Observer online, Reynolds welcomes the UK’s imminent entry into the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) as a “real win” for British exporters.

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