LONDON (UK) – The Financial Times has reported that Japan has given the UK just six weeks to strike a post-Brexit deal, putting the Boris Johnson government under pressure to agree to one of the fastest trade deals in history.
“To avoid a gap in January, we must pass this in the autumn session of the Diet [the Japanese parliament],” Hiroshi Matsuura, Tokyo’s chief negotiator, told the Financial Times. “That means we must complete negotiations by the end of July.”
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