{"id":122420,"date":"2021-10-05T19:00:28","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T19:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=122420"},"modified":"2021-10-05T19:00:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T19:00:28","slug":"liz-truss-silences-remainers-and-claims-brexit-britain-is-more-flexible-out-of-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/politics\/liz-truss-silences-remainers-and-claims-brexit-britain-is-more-flexible-out-of-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Liz Truss silences Remainers and claims Brexit Britain is more flexible out of EU"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Foreign Secretary Liz Truss argued the UK has been more nimble and flexible outside of the European Union. While speaking to GB News, she said Brexit Britain has already had success at forming trade deals and will continue to do so. She also argued, in some instances, the UK was able to secure better deals than the EU.<\/p>\n
Ms Truss said: “Lots of people said that we would never get those deals.<\/p>\n
“They said this because we are just one country rather than 28, they said we would get worse terms.<\/p>\n
“In fact, we got at least as good terms as the EU did and in the case of Japan, we got better terms.<\/p>\n
“We got a new agreement on digital and data and we got better mobility arrangements for people travelling to Japan with their spouses.<\/p>\n
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