Liam Fox: “one of the easiest in human history”

“one of the easiest in human history”

On a free trade agreement with the EU, speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. The BBC quotes only this phrase. Source: BBC News

The UK–EU trade agreement was struck on Christmas Eve 2020, after talks that ran to the last week before the transition period ended.

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