Matthew Taylor

Sunday shows round-up: This week is ‘moment of reckoning’ for EU trade deal

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, Picture credit: Sky News

Dominic Raab – This week is ‘the moment of reckoning’ for EU deal

The Sunday interview shows return this week to general fanfare across the nation… The first government guest to join Sophy Ridge was the Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, who was asked about the prospect of the UK reaching a satisfactory trade deal with the EU by the end of the year. James Forsyth has written this week about how Downing Street puts the likelihood of a deal down to 30 to 40 per cent, but Raab professed a greater optimism that an agreement could be reached, citing the thorny subject of fisheries as one of the few remaining ‘bones of contention’:

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