EU-Canada pact puts pressure on UK PM Burnham’s EU reset

The EU-Canada track matters less as a trade story than as a timing problem for London: Brussels is assembling partnerships that set the terms of market access before the UK's November summit even convenes. For UK industry, the sharper issue is whether the 'Made in Europe' plan hardens local-content rules that treat Britain as an outsider, which closer political ties alone may not offset. Whether Burnham can convert his Europe policy into concrete concessions before the EU's own agenda locks in is the open question.