UK's post-Brexit trade deals will 'make the world a safer place' boasts British negotiator
THE world will become a safer place once Britain secures trade deals outside the EU as it will help forge new alliances with the rest of the world, according the Britain’s new chief trade negotiator.
Crawford Falconer acknowledged “destructive political consequences of closed markets” and hailed Britain’s role in helping to obliterate trade barriers towards the end of the 20th century.
Mr Falconer claimed Britain has an opportunity to make a “real difference” in helping to promote global trade because of Brexit and hinted that the UK can deploy similar pro-trade tactics again to improve relations with foreign nations, which in turn would help to avoid conflict.
The New Zealand native, an experienced trade negotiator who worked for his home nation as an ambassador to the World Trade Organisation, hailed the impact trade can have on post-Brexit Britain.
Mr Falconer told the Daily Telegraph: “There is a powerful political and security element to getting this right. History is littered with instances of the destructive political consequences of closed markets.
“This was a lesson well understood at the end of last century’s global conflicts."
Mr Falconer insisted there was “everything to play for” in supporting Britain’s post-Brexit trade prospects and that they are “the core of any strategy to improve the global prospects for political openness and stability”.
He added: “It was at the core of the post-war global order – of which the UK was one of the chief architects.
“They are already looking to partner with us to re-energise that agenda.”
Mr Falconer’s remarks come after a spate of jihadi terror attacks swept across Europe last week, including in Spain, Russia and Finland, where a total of 16 people were killed and more than 130 injured.
Diplomatic tensions continue to rise between nations, in particular between North Korea and the US, with both nation’s threatening to put the world on the edge of World War 3.
Relations between the US and Russia risk plummeting to the levels during the Cold War after allegations the former Soviet nation meddled in last year’s Presidential election.