UK to ‘scale down’ climate change and illegal wildlife measures to bring in post-Brexit trade, secret documents reveal

‘The UK Government plans to water down regulations surrounding climate change and illegal wildlife trading in an effort to help secure post-Brexit trade, civil service documents have reportedly revealed.
In an upcoming speech by Tim Hitchens, the director-general of economic and consular affairs at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), he said the UK must to change its focus to carry out Prime Minister Theresa May’s vision of the UK as a “great, global trading nation”.
“You have a crucial role to play in posts in implementing our new approach to prosperity against the huge changes stemming from last year’s Brexit vote,” the notes seen by The Sunday Times read.’
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