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MPs voting to weaken UK trade negotiating strength is sadly unsurprising. That is how you get to a position where the EU expects us to fold at the end point of negotiations and we do. Australia, New Zealand and the US will expect the same. https://twitter.com/CarolineLucas/status/1351594971657334790
It is remarkable how little the UK government has learnt about trade negotiations since 2016. It still thinks secrecy and no detailed objectives gets good deals for the country. We have now seen how this fails. But still no change.
And in their failure to engage Parliament (and devolveds etc) properly in trade deals the government is rejecting the view of business, civil society, trade experts and the House of Lords. Impressive and unwarranted arrogance.
Worse still Conservative MPs would immediately discover the need for Parliamentary scrutiny of trade deals for a Labour government (and probably Labour MPs would lose their enthusiasm). It is no way to get the trade deals we want.
Can you imagine the US Congress or European Parliament opting not to have a view on trade deals?
Should add - I actually go less far on asks for Parliamentary scrutiny of trade deals than many other trade specialists or pressure groups. But hard not to get annoyed that a government with a track record of negotiating failure thinks it knows better than everyone else.
