London Mayor Sees Canada-EU Deal as Model for Post-`Brexit' U.K.
- Johnson lauds pact as offering `virtually unencumbered trade'
- Negotiations started in 2009, projected to be in force in 2017
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London Mayor Boris Johnson, one of the leading advocates of the U.K. leaving the European Union, suggested that a Canada-EU trade deal that’s been seven years in the making offers a model for Britain to use after a so-called Brexit.
“We should strike a new free-trade deal on the lines of what Canada has just achieved,” Johnson told staff on Friday at a warehouse in Dartford, southeast of London, where he was on his first campaign visit. “They’ve taken out the vast majority of tariffs. They have virtually unencumbered trade now. We want a relationship based on trade and cooperation.”