Thread by @Usherwood

Just to underline the key points of this: the TCA highlights the extent to which the UK remains entangled in a dense web of international commitments, post EU-membership

https://twitter.com/Usherwood/status/1349636760469438464

With several hundred references to over 110 multilateral commitments of various kinds, the UK will find that the control it was claiming to get back will be closely bound by an international system that's very different from 1973

Those commitments are mainly focused in trade (as you'd expect), but reach across the board, into health, food and human rights

Thus EU membership was, in various ways, a way of managing and moderating the growth of international society within the UK.

Leaving the EU does not make that any easier

The loss of @CommonsFREU as a central clearing-house for the consideration of this is obviously also less than helpful

theneweuropean.co.uk/brexit-news/we…

Overall: less EU doesn't mean that much less entanglement, internationally

@AndrewSparrow