LONDON (REUTERS) - Britain's top minister overseeing Brexit talks said on Friday (Aug 7) he was confident a free trade deal would be clinched with the European Union as there had been a distinct change of tone from the bloc in recent weeks allowing progress to be made.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
LONDON - Britain's top minister overseeing Brexit talks said on Friday he was confident a free trade deal would be clinched with the European Union as there had been a distinct change of tone from the bloc in recent weeks allowing progress to be made.
"I'm confident that there will be a deal, I think there has been a welcome change in tone over the last few weeks," Mr Michael Gove told reporters in Portadown in the British province of Northern Ireland. While Britain has always said it believed a deal was possible, the tenor of the comments from Mr Gove - one of the most senior Brexit supporters in Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government - was distinctly more positive than in recent months.Failure to reach a deal would convulse global trade just as the world comes to terms with the economic destruction sown by the novel coronavirus.
They said Brussels could go for a compromise entailing a dispute-settling mechanism on any state aid granted by the UK to its companies in the future, rather than obliging London to follow the bloc's own fair-competition rules from the outset.
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