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UK: MPs 'alarmed' at government's failure to set out 'basic policy' over future

investment agreements (Independent)

- A committee of MPs has voiced "alarm" at the government's failure to develop a

policy on post-Brexit international investment agreements, with the UK fewer

than 100 days away from a possible no-deal departure from the European Union.

- A critical report condemned the Department for International Trade's

"inability to set out even basic lines of policy" on the agreements, which will

be vital to the UK economy after EU withdrawal.

- And the cross-party House of Commons International Trade Committee questioned

government claims that foreign direct investment (FDI) in the UK had remained

strong following the 2016 referendum vote to leave the EU, warning there was a

danger that ministers were painting an excessively positive picture by

"cherry-picking" figures.

- Link: https://tinyurl.com/y5kxbsh8