BRUSSELS - Britain will not be threatened into following EU rules in the future by talk of economic rifts and is ready to trade with the bloc on basic international terms if needs be, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Europe adviser said on Monday .
"We are not frightened by suggestions there will be trade frictions," David Frost told a lecture at a Brussels university."We are not asking for anything special, we are asking for a simple free trade agreement." The speech came as a response to one delivered recently in London by a top EU official, Ursula von der Leyen, who called on Johnson to agree to so-called level playing field guarantees of fair competition based on ambitious environmental and labour standards.
"It is central to our vision that we must have the ability to set laws that suit us," Frost said."To think that we might accept EU supervision on so-called level playing field issues simply fails to see the point of what we are doing."
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