The UK’s current negotiating mandate for EU trade puts workers’ rights at risk, hinders efforts to tackle climate change and threatens British agriculture.
Beyond Deal or No Deal lurks the ‘future relationship’, which is likely to contain a trade agreement. In terms of what that means for our NHS, environment and rights, there are three big problems…
A customs union would still allow the UK to negotiate new trade deals covering large chunks of the economy – so it’s time for far more focus on how such deals affect our rights, and what say we have over them.