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Liz Truss will today launch negotiations for Britain to join one of the world’s biggest free-trade areas.
The International Trade Secretary hopes that membership of the trans-Pacific partnership will help the UK ‘pivot away’ from Europe post-Brexit.
She will launch the UK’s bid in a video call with her Japanese counterpart, Yasutoshi Nishimura.
Miss Truss said membership of the bloc, full name the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, will help ‘farmers, makers and innovators’
The partnership is a free trade agreement between Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam. The area is populated by half-a-billion people and with a GDP of £9trillion in 2019.
Last night Boris Johnson said membership would ‘open
