Comment by [deleted] on 27/11/2019 at 12:01 UTC

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View submission: OFFICIAL-SENSITIVE: Great Britain is practically standing on her knees working on a trade agreement with the US

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Comment by WS8SKILLZ at 27/11/2019 at 13:34 UTC

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" USTR were also clear that the UK-EU situation would be determinative: there would be all to play for in a No Deal situation but UK commitment to the Customs Union and Single Market would make a UK-U.S. FTA a non-starter" ALL TO PLAY FOR IN A NO DEAL SITUATION. This tells me everything is on the table if we don't get some sort of deal with the EU.

Comment by AndThatIsWhyIDrink at 27/11/2019 at 13:42 UTC

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It's a complicated web of using IP laws to secure a monopoly on who the NHS has to purchase their pharmaceuticals from, they have done this in other trade agreements too so we have examples of how they've done it in the past. This isn't something that can be easily given to you in a sentence or two.

There is a very long explanation here if you're genuinely interested in what the real meat of the issue is: https://www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/e2e6u9/new_corbyn_reveals_451_pages_of_unredacted_govt/f8v0gbb/