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British Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne is determined that after leaving the EU Britain now sets out to build a more outward-looking, global-facing country, with stronger links with its friends and allies around the world.

“Having been the voice for free trade inside the EU, we now intend to be its voice across the world,” Mr. Osborne writes in an article  in The Wall Street Journal.

According to the Chancellor, Britain must start with a closer economic relationship with North America.
“That is the message I bring to the leaders of finance in New York on Monday; and it is why I am leading a trade mission to Asia later this month,” he writes.

According to Mr. Osborne, among other things, Britain and the U.S. are each other’s largest foreign job creators. “Over one million people in the U.S. work for British companies; over a million people in the U.K. work for American firms. The U.K. is a leading financial center serving not just the continent of Europe, but the entire world”.

“So the pillars of our special relationship with the U.S. will be maintained, and strengthened. Our economic trade ties with North America must now become stronger. My message is simple: Britain may be leaving the EU, but we are not withdrawing from the world. Britain will be a beacon for free trade, democracy and security, more open to that world than ever,” George Osborne concludes.