UK-Swiss trade deal talks planned

KEMI Badenoch is flying to Switzerland for talks aimed at modernising the UK’s trade agreement with the country as the UK Government continues its attempts to forge post-Brexit economic ties outside the EU.

The Trade Secretary will meet her counterpart, Federal Councillor Guy Parmelin, in the capital Bern to discuss what a services-based” deal might look like.

The UK Government hopes to update its current agreement, which is effectively a rollover deal from when Britain was an EU member, to make it easier to export services financial, legal and architectural, among others.