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Pro-Brexit MP: A free trade deal with the UK could be a big win for the U.S., competition

September 19, 2018 at 4:18 PM
Owen Paterson, a Conservative member of the British Parliament and a Brexit supporter, said Wednesday that the U.S. should consider the UK a new ally in the fight for competition-based rules in global trade rather than a “rule-taking supplicant” to the European Union. “I believe competition, exercised by a free people, based on a culture of ideas and their capacity for hard work is the greatest force mankind has ever known to create [wealth],” Paterson said in a talk at...


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