The U.K. government has sold its soul in exchange for peanuts. According to its own modelling, this trade deal will have a negligible impact on the U.K. economy. In exchange, the U.K. has abandoned any pretense of championing better human rights or labor protections in these countries, which can now sue the government over domestic policies affecting their holdings.

This trade deal is undoubtedly a win for Britain, but one that could only have been possible thanks to Brexit and the negotiating freedoms that came with it. It is ironic, then, that elements of the Labour government wish to reverse that democratic decision and drag the U.K. back into Europe, which would fatally undermine the the nation's ability to make its own trade deals.