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Trade justice must recover steam

Campaigners should press for fairness in post-Brexit agreements

Customs union leaves everything to play for on trade justice

A customs union would still allow the UK to negotiate trade deals – so let's focus on how such deals affect our rights, and what say we have over them

Race to the bottom: How trade deals are undermining standards that protect us.

'Better regulation' isn't always better, and 'regulatory cooperation' is often cooperating to deregulate.

Theresa May is treating parliament like she’s a freewheeling PM of the 1920s

When it comes to Brexit and trade deals, MPs only get a say at the last minute. Our outdated system of treaty scrutiny needs to change.

ISDS - The big threat to human rights hidden in our trade deals

This human rights threat could be inserted into every post-Brexit trade deal and is already part of many exisiting UK investment deals.

The problem with CRAG: why Parliament’s processes for approving trade deals needs reform

How a genuinely democratic system for approving international trade agreements could look in post-Brexit Britain

Liam Fox rushing through Brexit trade deals would mean bypassing democracy

Although they will affect huge areas of society, many of these 'rollover' deals would pass through parliament without any debate or vote

We Won't Get A 'Meaningful Vote' On A UK-US Trade Deal – Here's Why That Matters

Post-Brexit we will return to an outdated way of approving trade deals despite the impacts on public policy, health standards and the environment