Britain will launch high-level trade missions to China, India, the US and the Commonwealth as it gears up for its split from the EU, discussions in Number 10 have concluded.
David Cameron told business leaders that it was imperative for corporate Britain not to become “fixated” on the EU, but to put great effort into making advances beyond the bloc.
At a meeting of the prime minister’s group of high-level business advisers at Downing Street on Thursday morning, where the atmosphere was described as that of “people in mourning”, Mr Cameron said that business should start saying what it wanted “in the house, because we are moving house”.