The closer the U.K. sticks to European Union rules post-Brexit the more limited a trade deal it can strike with the U.S.
on the alleged risks to the NHS revealed in the leaked papers detailing preliminary U.K.-U.S. trade talks, claiming the documents suggest the Tory government is ready to sell off its health service and change its drug patent rules.
However, he added that it's only once the U.K.'s strategic priorities are spelled out,"you can get a sense of the rough shape that the deal might begin to take."The U.S. negotiators were interested to know whether the U.K. might diverge from EU standards on food production. It was agreed that the U.K. would “share their public lines on chlorine-washed chicken to help inform the media narrative around the issue.” A U.S. official noted that the U.K.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock told the BBC's “Today” program this morning that Britain will ditch EU standards after Brexit — but only to make them"stronger." The Conservative Party manifesto insists the U.K. “will not compromise our high food standards.” On tech, U.S. officials did not raise the issue of the U.K. government's tax on digital services. One of the leaked documents said:"The U.K.'s digital tax wasn't raised at all, clearly the U.S. see this as a senior/political rather than technical issue."
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