David Parker, New Zealand's trade minister, said that Britain and his home nation were “so like-minded”

Britain must be “willing and able to agree high-quality terms” to join a major pacific trade bloc after leaving the European Union, its members have warned.

New Zealand is “really keen” to strengthen economic ties with the UK after Brexit, the country’s trade minister has said, having “suffered as a consequence” of it first joining the European Economic Community in 1973.

David Parker predicted that a bilateral trade agreement between Britain and New Zealand could emanate from Brexit like “day follows night. We are so like-minded and so alike. It just follows that we should have a better trading relationship or trade rule base between the two of us if the UK is in a position to negotiate.”

However, he emphasised that future members of