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Dec 25, 2020
LONDON – It took 11 grueling months for negotiators from Britain and the European Union to hammer out the terms of a post-Brexit trade deal. But in many respects, the deal is already 4½ years out of date.
The world has changed radically since June 2016, when a narrow majority of people in Britain voted to leave the European Union, tempted by an argument that the country would prosper by throwing off the bureaucratic shackles of Brussels.
In those days, the vision of an agile, independent Britain free to develop profitable, next-generation industries like artificial intelligence and cut its own trade deals with the United States, China and others was an alluring sales pitch. The buccaneers of Brexit promised to create a “Global Britain.”
For all the fanfare, Brexit is a victory from a bygone era
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For all the fanfare, Brexit is a victory from a bygone era
By Mark Landler
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London: It took 11 gruelling months for negotiators from Britain and the European Union to hammer out the terms of a post-Brexit trade deal. But in many respects, the deal is already 4 1/2 years out of date.
The world has changed radically since June 2016, when a narrow majority of people in Britain voted to leave the European Union, tempted by an argument that the country would prosper by throwing off the bureaucratic shackles of Brussels.