HAMBURG (Reuters) – Leaders from several members of the Group of 20 economic powers expressed a "strong desire” to forge "ambitious new bilateral trading relationships” with Britain after it leaves the European Union, British Prime Minister Theresa May has said.
Speaking at the end of a G20 summit in Hamburg, May said: "Some of the countries I’ve been talking to here have shown great interest in working with us on trade arrangements in the future – the United States, Japan, China, India.”
Turning to the Paris accord aimed at combating climate change, she added: "Like other world leaders here, I am dismayed at the U.S. decision to pull out of the Paris agreement and I’ve urged President Trump to rejoin the Paris agreement.”
Meanwhile, a post-Brexit trade deal with the United States would not be enough on its own to make up for leaving the European Union, British justice minister David Lidington said on Sunday.
U.S. President Donald Trump met with British Prime Minister Theresa May and said he hoped the United States can quickly seal a bilateral trade deal.
"It wouldn’t be enough on its own, no,” Lidington told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show. "But it would be a very good thing to have – as would trade deals with the emerging economies of Asia and Latin America.”