The free trade agreement that we will have to do with the European Union should be one of the easiest in human history.../ /.... The only reason that we wouldn't come to a free and open agreement is because politics gets in the way of economics. (Liam Fox)

The free trade agreement that we will have to do with the European Union should be one of the easiest in human history.../ /.... The only reason that we wouldn't come to a free and open agreement is because politics gets in the way of economics.

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