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UK envoy: Post-Brexit UK will push for better trade pacts with S'pore

He lists several areas in which the UK can look into to deepen collaboration with S'pore after it leaves the EU

Published Wed, Jan 18, 2017 · 09:50 PM

Singapore

ONCE out of the European Union, the United Kingdom will be free to pursue better trade pacts with other countries that it previously could not.

British High Commissioner to Singapore Scott Wightman on Wednesday likened Britain after the exit to a hungry, daring country, ready to explore deeper collaborations with Singapore in areas in which it had previously held back.

Speaking to the local media, he said: "Because we won't be a member of th…

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