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No because it is not at all true. If the UK were in a customs union with the EU, nothing the EU negotiated with the US with regard to public services would have any impact on the UK because the UK would not be party to the EU’s free trade agreement with the US.
Even if the UK is in a customs union with the EU, the UK still needs to negotiate its own free trade agreements. The constraint a customs union placed on the UK’s ability to do so is that its offer on tariff concessions must be the same as the EU. Everything else up to UK.
This stuff is complicated, I get it. But everyone on all sides of the debate must do better.
I have created one of my ‘famous’ #dataviz infographics that may or may not help matters:
Even if the UK is in a customs union with the EU, it would not automatically be covered by an EU trade agreement with the US. It would need to negotiate its own.
Even if the UK is in a customs union with the EU, it would not automatically be covered by an EU trade agreement with the US. It would need to negotiate its own.
