Obama: U.K. will be left behind on trade if it leaves EU

Published April 22, 2016 4:53pm ET



President Obama warned Friday that the United Kingdom might be left at “back of the queue” when it comes to major trade deals if it votes to leave the European Union.

The U.S. has been focused on negotiating with “a big block” of countries, like the European Union, to “get a trade deal going,” Obama said, adding that renegotiating a massive major trade deal with Asian and other nations is “not gonna happen anytime soon.”

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