Chancellor Philip Hammond has told European leaders it is in the interest of both the UK and the European Union to include financial services in a post-Brexit free trade agreement.
His speech offered some clarity on the direction the government hopes to take financial services once the UK has left the EU. According to the BBC, the Chancellor of the Exchequer said: "I am clear not only that it is possible to include financial services within a trade deal, but that it is very much in our mutual interest to do so." However, the report said President of the European Council Donald Tusk rejected the proposals. Tusk said a trade deal including financial services "does not exist", according to the report. Hammond added it did not surprise him that the "EU had set ou...
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