Should MPs have a vote on post-Brexit trade deals?

Analysis: Future trade is shaping up to be the next parliamentary battleground, Lizzy Buchan explains

Theresa May’s wafer-thin parliamentary majority has been exploited by Conservative rebels and the DUP (Getty)

The UK’s ability to strike independent trade deals after leaving the European Union has long been touted as one of the major benefits of Brexit.

Eurosceptics wax lyrical about Britain’s chance to win big on the world stage, to become a buccaneering, free-trading power outside of the suffocating confines of the EU.

The idea of “global Britain” was one of Boris Johnson’s favourite themes before he resigned as foreign secretary, while Liam Fox, the international trade secretary, has been champing at the bit over the past two years to start signing trade deals that will prove that the UK is better off outside of the bloc.