ICELAND’s former President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson urged the UK to join a Nordic alliance of non-EU countries after Brexit, unearthed reports reveal.
Mr Johnson is also expected to start trade negotiations with the US in the next couple of weeks.
If Britain succeeds in securing a free trade agreement with the US soon, it can leverage this advantage when negotiating with Brussels, where discussions are expected to proceed with considerable difficulty.
There is another trade deal the UK could make, though.
After voting to leave in June 2016, Iceland’s former President President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson claimed that Britain, Norway and Iceland should form a new union and shaped a northern “super-triangle” outside of EU law.
The eurosceptic President said: “First and foremost the outcome [of the Brexit referendum] is the most serious setback the leadership of the European Union has seen for a very long time and a verdict so grim that it is hard to find words to describe this historic event.
Brexit bombshell: How Britain could join Nordic alliance of non-EU countries (Image: GETTY)
Mr Johnson’s ministers will sign off a negotiating mandate for the EU talks on Tuesday (Image: GETTY)
“It is now obvious that here in the North Atlantic will be a triangle of nations that all stand outside of the European Union: Greenland, Iceland, Great Britain, the Faroe Islands and Norway.
“This key area in the North will be outside of the influence of the European Union.”
Mr Grimsson claimed that after Brexit, the countries could have potentially played a big role.
He said “it is about trade, diplomacy, commodities and several other fields”, stressing that the far north, would become more important not only in a European, but in a global context as well.
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EU’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier (Image: GETTY)
