UK trade minister: U.S. trade deal ‘very, very high’ on the priority list

Newly installed British Secretary of State for International Trade Liz Truss said on Thursday that a free trade agreement between the U.S. and a post-Brexit United Kingdom was “very, very high” on the UK’s priority list. “If you look at the opportunities from Brexit, they are manifold,” she said in remarks at the Heritage Foundation. “It will give us new freedoms beyond the EU, and the ability to set out our own economic policy -- and, in my view, the...