bring in karen jones he's an economist at lancaster university in the u.k. gerund welcome to the program theresa may wants a free trade deal including goods but excluding services what do you make of the. whole christoff yes it's an interesting proposal that's come out of the prime minister's country residence and it's the deal that she has agreed with her own policy of government and been very different voices from different parts that government arguing for different types of breaks it and so this is a kind of compromise that they've reached amongst themselves as the governing party in the u.k. this is what the case is proposing to the european union that there should be essentially a common rule book that covers goods so that goods stay in something that is like a quasar single market but not for services this freedom for the u.k. to various regulations in the arena of services so it's a bit of a clunky arrangement clunky also in terms of how the the customs arrangements would work with different countries collecting customs revenues for each other which is a really bureaucrat