Liam Fox

Foreign Office minister James Cleverly has insisted that Boris Johnson has delivered his “oven-ready” Brexit deal, and that the UK still “holds all the cards” in talks with the EU. Cleverly appeared on BBC Breakfast amid questions over whether Brexiteers were right with their predictions that it would be the “easiest deal in history” and that the […]

Liam Fox has backtracked on comments he made about a Brexit deal being “the easiest in human history” by picking on semantics. The staunch Eurosceptic and former international trade secretary has attempted to weasel out of prior remarks he made about EU trade deal negotiations by focusing on his use of language. Appearing on Sky News’ […]

Boris Johnson’s choice to be the next leader of the World Trade Organisation has been eliminated from the race. Disgraced former defence secretary Liam Fox had been backed by the prime minister and international trade secretary Liz Truss. But the WTO said Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala of Nigeria and Yoo Myung-hee of South Korea had made it through […]

Disgraced former defence secretary Liam Fox has made it through to the second round of the race to become the next director general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Liz Truss, his successor at the Department for International Trade, announced that Dr Fox, the UK’s nominee for the top job has successfully navigated the first […]