Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton holds little hope of a trade deal for Britain while Donald Trump is in charge Patrick Semansky/APHillary Clinton has warned that failure to secure a Brexit deal with the European Union would put Britain at a “very big disadvantage”, and that a trade deal through President Donald Trump may not be forthcoming. The former presidential candidate said that a deadlock with Brussels would put pressure on business and that there could be “quite serious” disruption. Mr Trump “doesn’t believe in trade”, she claimed, and was on the verge of pulling out of agreements with America’s biggest partners. “I think it would be a very big disadvantage to Britain,” Mrs Clinton will tell BBC1’s Andrew Marr Show tomorrow. “No deal, meaning no preferential trade deals, which means products in Britain would not have the kind of easy access to the European market…

Source: The Times October 14, 2017 11:03 UTC