Boris Johnson secured a trade deal with the EU on Christmas Eve (Image: GETTY)
Ms Truss and her team have now agreed trade deals with 62 countries, alongside the new EU deal - accounting for around £885 billion of UK trade.
More deals with Albania, Cameroon and Ghana could be agreed in the coming days.
Announcing the deal the International Trade Secretary said: “We now look forward to working with Turkey towards an ambitious tailor-made trade agreement in the near future, as we aim to open new global markets for great British businesses, drive economic growth and improve people’s lives across both countries.
28 Dec 2020
Representatives from the 27 remaining European member states “provisionally” approved the Brexit deal agreed between London and Brussels negotiators on Monday, while Tory Eurosceptics may vote in favour of the deal this week, despite concerns about scrutiny.
Ambassadors form EU member states met in Brussels Monday, and unanimously approved the Brexit deal. The move opens the way for the document to active an January 1st, but the decision is only provisional the Euroepan Parliament will scrutinise the agreement and vote on it in January or perhaps later in 2021, reports the BBC.
The working group of European states is known as the European Council, distinct from the European Parliament, European Commission, and a myriad of other bodies that make up the institutions of the European Union and its associated parts. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson wrote Monday that he had spoken to European Council boss Charles Michel at the time of the agreement, remarking that: “I
The poll also found eight out of ten voters still hold the same views on the EU they did in 2016.
Currently the Government is attempting to negotiate a new trade deal with Brussels to replace the Brexit transition period which ends at the close of this year.
However talks remain deadlocked over fishing rights and how far Britain can deviate from the EU’s regulatory “level playing field’.
Speaking to the BBC a Government source said Brussels must make additional concessions if it wants a deal.
The Savanta ComRes poll of 2,006 British adults was conducted between December 16 and 18 online.
Britons would vote to leave the EU again if there was another referendum (Image: GETTY)
Panicked European leaders have voiced concern over the EU s push for a no-deal Brexit after failing to force Boris Johnson to budge in the row over fishing.
In what sources described as a “gloom-ridden” assessment of the trade talks, Ursula von der Leyen told them to prepare their capitals for the “high probability” trade talks with Britain end in failure.
The European Commission chief admitted she had failed to break the deadlock over post-Brexit fishing rights and common standards after a tetchy dinner meeting with the Prime Minister. Fearing for the worst, started EU leaders spoke of their anxiety of the impact a no-deal Brexit could have on their countries.