Tag: Alexander Downer

• Wednesday, August 9th 2017 - 15:15 UTC

  Australia recalls 73 Commonwealth experience and offers UK advice on Brexit: don't be gloomy

  

  Britain is “a bit gloomy” about Brexit and can achieve success outside the European Union, Australia’s high commissioner to the UK has said. Alexander Downer said the UK could be “cautiously optimistic” about achieving a new free trade deal with the EU, and could forge a new and successful economic policy if it pursued the right path domestically.