The preoccupation with free trade between countries hides the real issue, says the chairman of the Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council
“[Trading with] the Commonwealth is a no brainer,” says Lord Marland, chairman of the Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council (CWEIC). “[But] there’s no doubt the UK has withdrawn from a lot of the Commonwealth countries, because it hasn’t had the support of the government as it used to. We’re going to have to work quite hard at rebuilding the relationship with some of those countries and reap the benefits.”
Marland is speaking ahead of the CWEIC’s first trade ministers’ meeting, scheduled for March 2017. The timing – just as Article 50 is scheduled to be invoked by Theresa May’s government – is entirely coincidental, he insists.
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Source: Guardian