UK Urges EU to Keep Trade Open Amid ‘Made in Europe’ Concerns

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves urged the European Union officials to maintain trade links with the UK amid concerns that the bloc could adopt more protectionist industrial policies that penalize British companies.

Reeves and Business Secretary Peter Kyle “discussed global economic trade” and “the importance of open trade” in meetings with the European Commission’s trade and economy chiefs, Maros Sefcovic and Valdis Dombrovskis, in London on Tuesday, Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s spokesman Tom Wells said.

The British ministers told their EU counterparts they should remain “focused on removing barriers to trade,” Wells said, when asked about a Bloomberg ...