Foreign secretary said deals should not be limited to countries with European-level standards of rights
Dominic Raab has tried to fend off claims that he told Foreign Office staff that the UK intended to trade with countries with poor human rights records.
In a leaked recording of a briefing by the foreign secretary, passed to HuffPost, he reportedly said: “I squarely believe we ought to be trading liberally around the world. If we restrict it to countries with European convention on human rights-level standards of human rights, we’re not going to do many trade deals with the growth markets of the future.”
