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Irish PM Varadkar: EU has upper hand in Brexit trade talks with UK

In an interview with the BBC on Monday, Irish Prime Minister (PM) Leo Varadkar noted that the European Union (EU) will have the upper hand in post-Brexit trade talks with the UK.  

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Questions UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s timetable of striking a deal by the end of the year.

The European Union is a union of 27 member states. The UK is only one country. And we have a population and a market of 450 million people.

The GBP/USD pair shrugs off the above comments, as it extends its recovery attempts towards the 1.31 handle amid a fresh round of broad US dollar selling. 

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