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UK will be able to sign trade deals during Brexit transition - May's spokesman

FILE PHOTO: Anti-Brexit demonstrators wave EU and Union flags outside the Houses of Parliament in London, Britain, January 30, 2018. REUTERS/Toby Melville/File Photo (Reuters)

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will be able to agree and sign trade deals during a transition period after it leaves the European Union, Prime Minister Theresa May's spokesman said on Thursday after some Brexit campaigners feared a new document cast doubt on the ability to trade independently.

"We have been clear throughout that we can agree and sign trade deals during the implementation period," the spokesman told reporters, "and the European Commission's own guidelines, we believe, reflect that."

(Reporting by Elizabeth Piper; editing by Stephen Addison)