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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
I think sympathy should be reserved for the staff at British firms whose exports look to be curtailed by Brexit.
It's not Sunak who negotiates trade deals, it's civil servants. We've tried changing the Prime Minister three times without success. That's because we cannot alter the fundamentals that 27 countries have more negotiating power than one.
Try as I might, I'm struggling to find the positive in an incoming British government inheriting a trade deal which prevents some exports to Canada.
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Civil servants are presented with policy objectives and work from there. They also take political guidance via the department’s permanent secretary and when a high profile negotiation reaches a critical phase they advise ministers who attend directly.
We don’t live in a technocracy, though that is more akin to the way the EU operates, as its inner workings owe much to the French model of government. The success or failure of trade deals for the UK will always be a matter of political will and skill. Sadly our present administration lacks both.