Project Fear? Everybody wants to trade with UK

NEARLY all of the countries that Remain campaigners said would not want to trade with Britain post-Brexit have called for deeper trade links.

Of the 111 countries that ‘Project Fear’ campaigners said would not want a deal if the UK chose to leave the EU, 10 have signalled that they want to work with Britain.

In the build-up to last year’s EU referendum, the official Britain Stronger in Europe campaign claimed that the countries would have ‘moved on’ after Brexit.

But campaign group Change Britain found that eight nations have ‘enthusiastically’ asked for a free-trade deal with the UK, 97 have said they want a deal in principle, and just six have not yet said whether they are interested in a deal.

Change Britain supporter and former trade minister Lord Jones of Birmingham said: ‘This report demonstrates that the pro EU Project Fear campaign was nonsense. The UK has the world’s fifth largest economy, the world’s leading financial centre and many of its best companies, innovators and universities. The rest of the world is queuing up to do trade deals with us.’