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Human rights and trade deals
The Westminster government needs to be pressed constantly to be transparent on discussions it is having around post-Brexit trade deals, argues ARTHUR WEST
MURKY BUSINESS: Former chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng and former trade secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan

DURING Britain’s time as an EU member the British government was a party to 40 trade deals which covered 70 countries.

In this post-Brexit period Britain is focused on trying to secure trade deals that replace arrangements made when it was a member of the EU.

One of the concerns of organisations such as Amnesty International is that the current Tory Westminster government would be prepared to overlook human rights issues and labour abuse concerns to secure trade deals.

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