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Montevideo, November 5th 2024 - 14:07 UTC

Tag: International Trade Department

  • Wednesday, May 2nd 2018 - 08:36 UTC

    No peace for PM May: Brexiteer MPs deliver an ultimatum on customs union

    Allegedly chancellor Philip Hammond favors a customs partnership whereby UK n collects the EU's tariffs on goods coming from other countries on the EU's behalf

    Senior Brexiteer MPs have delivered an “ultimatum” demanding Prime Minister Theresa May drops one of the government's preferred post-Brexit customs options. A 30-page document passed to the BBC says a “customs partnership” would make meaningful trade deals “impossible” and render the International Trade Department “obsolete”.