The UK is “closing in on an agreement in principle” in trade talks with New Zealand, International Trade Secretary Liz Truss has said.
She said “great progress” has been made in the sixth round of talks between the two countries which ran from July 19-30.
The prospect of a deal with Australia has prompted controversy, with many British farmers raising concerns about being undercut and some MPs questioning how environmentally friendly it is to ship food to and from the other side of the world.
The Department for International Trade said deals will not be signed that compromise high environmental protections and food standards.
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Railways can exert an extraordinary influence upon the psyche, whether one is an onlooker, as in Mr Welsh’s masterpiece, or whether one is speeding to a pre-determined destination. They can liberate thought or, most notably in the United States of America, they can be engines of transformation, with a quasi-colonial purpose. Think of the Transcontinental Railroad which straddled the emerging USA in the 19th century. Starting, separately, in Sacramento, California, and Omaha, Nebraska, the two lines eventually merged at Promontory, Utah, in a symbolic act of union. Now, it would be decidedly pushing things somewhat to suggest that such elevated concepts were in the collective mind of the London North Eastern Railway (LNER) when they breezily declared that their trains would continue to observe English law even when they had crossed the border into Scotland.