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On the opposite end of the Brexit debate, Sam Lowe of the Centre for European Reform says the “guilty secret of trade” is that in terms of the long-term economic impact most trade agreements amount to “little more than rounding errors”.

Selvom en del konservative ikke ønsker et hårdt brexit, så ønsker de dog heller ikke at fremtvinge et valg, vurderer Agata Gostynska-Jakubowska, seniorforsker ved tænketanken CER. "Hvis det viser sig, at eneste udvej er en mistillidsafstemning og derefter et valg, så vil mange konservative nok tøve. Der er frygt for, at det kan få katastrofale konsekvenser, hvis de skal dyste mod det nye brexit-parti," siger hun.

“If any UK-US trade agreement is ever to materialise, the UK will be required to concede on the vast majority of the US’s demands,” said Sam Lowe, a senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform, a think-tank.

“Last year, at the G7 summit in Canada, Trump was isolated,” said Ian Bond, head of foreign policy at the Centre for European Reform think-tank. “The dilemma for Johnson this weekend is clear. Does he curry favour with Trump by helping him out of his isolation on key issues? Or does Johnson stick with longstanding UK positions on Iran and climate change and align with the rest of the G7.”

There is growing speculation that Mr Johnson is aiming for a general election, said Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform, a research institute based in London, since his working parliamentary majority has dwindled to just one. But that presents other perils.“If he is going into an election, he has to be very careful not to be seen as Trump’s poodle,” he said. The opposition Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, is already trying to disparage Mr. Johnson as “Britain’s Trump.”