The Guardian view on WTO rules: not a Brexit safety net | Editorial

The Tory free-trade fundamentalists are wrong: the UK has more clout in the world as part of Team EuropeWhen ministers point to a silver lining, check for clouds. So it is with recent boasts of a deal between the UK and Brussels on the division of shared quotas that, under World Trade Organisation auspices, manage food imports from non-EU countries. It is an unglamorous aspect of Brexit, but an instructive one.To summarise crudely, the deal presumes that the current EU quota is unchanged an