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Pro-Brexit group calls for EU free trade deal
« on: December 28, 2016, 09:54:47 am »
Campaigners for a "hard" Brexit have asked business groups across Europe to put pressure on their governments for a free trade agreement with Britain.

Leave Means Leave has written to the chambers of commerce in all the other 27 EU states, asking them to call for a "sensible agreement regarding the terms of Britain's exit from the EU".

The letter warns that trade barriers would have a "detrimental effect".

It also calls for uninterrupted trade as well as near-zero tariffs.

The letter was written by Leave Means Leave co-chairs Richard Tice and John Longworth, the former British Chambers of Commerce director-general. The group wants to ensure Brexit means the UK is no longer a member of the EU's single market.

They said there were "many important elections taking place in EU member states" next year.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38447743

Seems a touch like wanting to have their cake and eat it too - but what do I know?  :shrug:
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