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Read my @HouseofCommons speech on our independent trade policy to drive jobs and growth across 🇬🇧
We will use our global platform in 2021 to promote free and fair trade
And take on those countries who try to cheat and undermine free enterprise 👇
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Trade is core to our #GlobalBritain vision & critical to covid recovery.
Today I set out how we will:
👉Use trade to drive jobs and growth across 🇬🇧
👉Lead the world in services and digital trade
👉Reform global trade rules and fight protectionism 🌎
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We will not ignore modern slavery. To ensure that UK companies do not unwittingly profit from forced labour in Xinjiang, @DominicRaab @pritipatel and I are announcing:
👉 Updated business guidance
👉 Export controls review
👉 New financial penalties
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Read my piece in @Telegraph on how 🇬🇧 is standing up against the state-sponsored undermining of free enterprise and the human rights violations being perpetrated in China's region of Xinjiang.👇
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This year the 🇬🇧 takes on the Presidency of the @G7
I look forward to working with my fellow Trade Ministers to promote free and fair trade as part of our agenda to #buildbackbetter from the crisis
🇬🇧🇺🇸🇩🇪🇫🇷🇮🇹🇯🇵🇨🇦🇪🇺#G7UK
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Great to join the Build Back Better Council with 30 major employers and @BorisJohnson @RishiSunak @KwasiKwarteng &
@nadhimzahawi.
We discussed our plans to unlock investment across 🇬🇧 including through the new Office for Investment led by @GerryGrimstone.
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Great to speak at #JapanTrade. I outlined:
👉 how business can benefit from 🇬🇧🇯🇵 deal
👉 our ambition to join Japan in #CPTPP and develop our relationship
👉 using our #G7 presidency to work with fellow democracies like Japan to promote free & fair trade
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Brilliant news that @BombardierRail will boost its manufacturing capacity in Derby 🚝 with £1.7b backing from @UKEF.
The deal will directly support 100 UK jobs and see the 1st export of UK-built trains for more than 12 years to Egypt 🇪🇬
#PlanforJobs
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Positive investment news from @Nissan.👇
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Very important work by @pritipatel to tackle the horrific scourge of child sexual abuse.👇 twitter.com/pritipatel/sta…
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Thrilled to be named Honorary Australian of the Year in the UK for 2021.
Now let's get the deal done! @DanTehanWannon @AusHCUK
🇬🇧🇦🇺 twitter.com/AusHCUK/status…
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We're making good progress with New Zealand 🇳🇿 with round 3 of trade talks starting today.
We want a deal that pushes new frontiers in areas like digital and data and the environment, and delivers for people across the UK 🇬🇧 👇
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Happy #AustraliaDay to our great friends down under. 🇬🇧 🇦🇺
Looking forward to taking our trading relationship to new heights in 2021 and getting this deal done @DanTehanWannon and @AusHCUK twitter.com/AusHCUK/status…
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History must never be allowed to repeat itself.
Today we remember all those murdered during the Holocaust and more recent genocides.
#HolocaustMemorialDay #LightTheDarkness
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Great news that @JCBmachines is recruiting over 400 🇬🇧 staff.
75% of JCB production goes abroad.
More opportunities to export our goods means more investment in UK factories supporting UK jobs.
Trade= jobs 👇
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Great discussion at @wef on fixing the international trade system.
As an independent trading nation, Global Britain will work with like-minded democracies to champion free and fair trade.
It's time we had rules fit for the 21st century. 🇬🇧 👇
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Tomorrow we will formally apply to join #CPTPP 🇬🇧
Membership will help drive an export- led, jobs-led recovery across 🇬🇧 bringing more opportunities to trade with fast growing Pacific nations. 🌎
Read more here👇
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Read my @Daily_Express oped on why joining the Asia Pac trade area #CPTPP is a huge opportunity for 🇬🇧 business and Global Britain. 👇
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Read my article in @Telegraph about the 🇬🇧's application to the dynamic £9 trillion pacific trade area #CPTPP and how we will use our #G7 Presidency to fight for free and fair trade. #GlobalBritain 👇
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I have just formally notified #CPTPP nations of our intent to join. 🇬🇧🌏
Membership will:
👉position 🇬🇧 at the heart of some of the world’s fastest-growing economies
👉create high value #jobs across the UK
👉help us build back a better global trading system
#GlobalBritain
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Pleased to have finalised deal with Ghana covering £1.2bn of trade. Deal will be signed shortly 🇬🇧🇬🇭. 👇 twitter.com/tradegovuk/sta…
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Today we signed a trade deal with Albania 🇬🇧🇦🇱
The agreement secures vital certainty for business and supports 🇬🇧 jobs.
We’ve now agreed deals with 64 countries plus the EU, covering £897bn of trade.
Trade = opportunity = jobs
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🇬🇧🇮🇳 Today I met India Finance Minister @nsitharaman to talk about how we will:
✅ Deliver more trade and investment
✅ Create jobs in both countries
✅ Collaborate on industries of the future
More trade will help our two great democratic nations #BuildBackBetter from Covid
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Excellent to meet @PiyushGoyal and business leaders to identify opportunities to deepen 🇬🇧 🇮🇳 trade and investment.
Looking forward to further talks tomorrow. twitter.com/PiyushGoyal/st…
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Great to start my visit to India meeting Ministers @rsprasad and @smritiirani to talk about technology, science and women’s economic empowerment 🇮🇳🇬🇧
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. MP for South West Norfolk.