U.K.'s Davis Expresses Hope for Trade Deal With EU Before Brexit
- Davis says Parliament will decide on future trade agreements
- Brexit secretary in Prague to meet Czech foreign minister
David Davis speaks during a news conference following the second round of Brexit negotiations in Brussels, Belgium, on July 20, 2017.
Photographer: Jasper Juinen/BloombergBrexit Secretary David Davis expressed optimism that the U.K. and European Union could still strike a trade deal before Britain leaves the bloc in March 2019, a more bullish stance than that adopted by other members of Prime Minister Theresa May’s government.
“Once we got onto the future arrangements, we want to see a comprehensive trade arrangement, a minimum number of economic barriers, so that our citizens and our businesses can trade with each other and travel, people can exercise their skills across the economy,” Davis told reporters during a trip to Prague on Tuesday. “All of these things we need to resolve, and we need to resolve them in the next one to two years.”