Britain seeking EU trade reset: minister [Video]

Britain is urgently looking to reset its trading relationship with the European Union, and sees international commerce as key to reviving UK growth, trade minister Douglas Alexander told AFP.

Alexander said Britain’s 2016 vote to leave the EU caused “significant disruption” to its trade policy and the country needed to recalibrate its global trade outlook.

He was in Geneva on Monday to meet the head of the World Trade Organization, as part of a plan to piece together a revamped, long-term UK trade strategy to be published in spring 2025.

“The fact that this is my first European visit is an indication of the strength of commitment of the incoming government, both to the WTO and to the multilateral trading system,” said Alexander.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s centre-left Labour Party swept to power with a huge parliamentary majority in July elections that ousted the Conservatives after 14 years and …