“We have done Brexit. We have left the EU. Now we’re engaged in the process of our future relationship with the EU, our future relationship with the U.S., our future relationship with the rest of the global economy,” he said.

Phillipson, the British Consul General in New York and Her Majesty’s Trade Commissioner for North America, spoke Thursday in Raleigh, North Carolina, during a panel discussion that Womble Bond Dickinson sponsored.