New digital trade deal struck with Ukraine
Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch yesterday signed a new digital trade agreement with Ukraine, which is being hailed by the government as guaranteeing the war-torn country access to UK financial services as it seeks to rebuild its shattered economy.
The deal comes after ukraine’ s first lady Olena Zelenska used a visit to Parliament on Tuesday to call for British support for a special tribunal to aggression against Ukraine, as she told MPS and peers of the war crimes Russia is alleged to have carried out across her country.
Senior Tory MP To bias Ellwood said yesterday that theuk should "absolutely honour" Ms Zelenska' s request, which came as she addressed an audience of MPS and peers that included Boris Johnson and Sir Keir Starmer.
Digital trade is considered to be particularly important in the current conflict with Russia, with the fighting and damage to infrastructure making physical trade more difficult.