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Keep secret corporate courts out of post-Brexit trade deals with US
Global Justice Now and War on Want present government with 70,000-strong petition against investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) deals
Prime Minister Boris Johnson (left) meets US President Donald Trump, last September
ALMOST 70,000 people are urging the government to keep corporate courts out of a post-Brexit trade deal with the United States ahead of talks due to start later this month.
A petition with 69,804 signatures was handed into the Department for International Trade today by campaign groups Global Justice Now and War on Want.
Leaked papers from preliminary trade talks last year indicate that US President Donald Trump is refusing to rule out the inclusion of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) in any deal, according to the groups.
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