Britain’s Not-So-Sweet Options for an EU Trade Deal
May’s Cabinet Split Three Ways Over Brexit
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"Our policy is having our cake and eating it," British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson declared in 2016. By that he meant the U.K. could strike a Brexit deal that freed it from the rules and responsibilities of European Union membership, but maintained free and frictionless trade with its biggest trading partner. Such ambition was always fanciful, but as Johnson returns to the Brexit debate there is an argument raging within government over what the U.K.’s long-term trade lines with the EU should look like. Should they look like Norway’s relationship with the EU or Canada’s or perhaps even Switzerland’s? Each model has pros and cons.