Britain stands to benefit enormously from post-Brexit trade deals, according to Andrea Leadsom.

The Health Minister was speaking on the fourth anniversary of the UK leaving the European Union.

She told GB News: “The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal is going to be enormous. It's where almost half the world's growth is predicted to come in future decades.

“That is going to be an increasing part of their trading opportunity for the UK but at the same time we are still massively trading with the EU.

“It's simply not true to say that we don't have the ability to trade with the EU, of course we do.”

In a discussion during Breakfast with Eamonn Holmes and Isabel Webster, she added: “The UK has gone up the rankings in world trade organisation terms.

“We've signed up to this massive Trans-Pacific Partnership and in the health space, our own medicines agency means we're able to look at medicines regulations much faster under our own control

“It meant we were able to come out of lockdown sooner because we were able to vaccinate our population. And what that meant is that we grew our economy faster.”

She added: “Look at many EU nations, they've been in recession over the last year or two.”