Aussie PM: We want trade talks as soon as possible

BRITAIN yesterday got a Brexit boost from the Australian prime minister, who said he wanted a trade deal as soon as possible after we leave the European Union.

After talks with Theresa May in Downing Street, Malcolm Turnbull offered an upbeat assessment of this country’s prospects..

He said his opposite number wanted Britain to take a new global role with ‘big horizons and big opportunities’, saying he wanted Australia to be a ‘partner in that drive’.

At a press conference he praised Mrs May’s ‘vision’, adding: ‘It’s not a counsel of despair as some people have said. I know, Theresa, that you believe passionately that the British people can do anything, can achieve anything and that your post Brexit Britain will be a Britain with big horizons, big opportunities, free trade, open markets.

‘We stand ready to enter into a free trade agreement with the UK as soon as the UK is able to do so.

‘There are no two nations in the world that trust each other more than the UK and Australia We are family in a historical sense, we are family in a genetic sense.