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After Brexit, a U.S. Trade Deal

8/28/19
from The Wall Street Journal,
8/28/19:

As Johnson presses Britain’s EU exit, a U.S.-U.K. deal is crucial.

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Wednesday he’ll suspend Parliament for several weeks, a move that increases the odds of a no-deal exit from the European Union. While Britain nears a messy Brexit—and America grapples with the economic fallout of President Trump ’s trade wars—the importance for both countries of a new bilateral trade deal looms ever larger. Mr. Johnson’s Parliament gambit—a longer than usual version of what’s known as “prorogation”—is causing consternation as “anti-democratic.” Yet the opponents of Brexit in Parliament want to override the majority of the British public who voted in the 2016 referendum to leave the EU. The mock concern for “democracy” by the anti-Brexit elites is something to behold.

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