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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Heather Stewart Economics editor

Reeves hopes hat-trick of deals shows Britain is open for business

A meeting at the UK-EU summit at Lancaster House, London.
Rachel Reeves, Keir Starmer, David Lammy and Nick Thomas-Symonds face Kaja Kallas, Ursula von der Leyen, António Costa and Maroš Šefčovič during a meeting. Photograph: Kin Cheung/PA

Rachel Reeves joked to journalists after Monday’s EU-UK reset that trade deals were coming along “like buses”, given the agreements with India and the US that had also been sealed in the past fortnight alone.

The chancellor described the EU deal as the best that had been secured by any non-member country, but she was also keen to talk about the three successful negotiations as a package.

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