Claim: The Foreign Secretary's claim that the UK can leave the EU customs union but still trade freely was described as "impossible" by his Dutch counterpart.
Fact-check: Free trade outside the EU customs union - Full Fact
Verdict: broadly correct, although jeroen dijsselbloem assumed that boris johnson was referring to staying in the eu single market when he talked about maintaining "free trade". that may not have been the case.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Conor James Mckinney
Date published: 2016-11-16T00:00:00