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New trade deal ‘bad for workers at home and abroad’
CPTPP trade deal will allow corporations to sue governments over policies affecting profits, unions and campaigners warn
Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch

MULTINATIONAL corporations will be able to sue any British government which introduces policies deemed detrimental to their profits under a new trade deal signed today by the Tories, trade unions have warned.

The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) could jeopardise decisions such as increases to the national minimum wage, the TUC said.

It also warned that the deal could mean Britain turning “a blind eye” to exploitation and human rights abuses suffered by workers in the states covered by the agreement.

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