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Britain holding secret trade talks with unnamed countries

BRITAIN is conducting secret trade talks with at least one foreign state, government lawyers admitted today. 

The revelation emerged on the final day of Global Justice Now’s legal battle to force the Information Commissioner’s Office to release details of trade talks already known to be under way with more than a dozen countries.

At a hearing in central London, government lawyers admitted that preliminary trade talks have been held in secret, supposedly because they are too sensitive to be made public. 

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