President Donald Trump said the US and the UK had restarted long-stalled trade talks after meeting British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the White House.
“We’re going to have a great trade agreement one way or the other,” Trump told reporters at a joint briefing with Starmer on Thursday. “We’re going to end up with a very good trade agreement for both countries, and we’re working on that as we speak.”
“I think we’ll have something maybe even in terms of possibilities agreed to very shortly,” Trump said.
The British side has sought a trade deal with the US since its 2016 referendum to leave the European Union and the previous Conservative government held several rounds of talks with Trump’s first administration. His Democratic successor, President Joe Biden, subsequently suspended those negotiations as part of a general pull back from free trade talks.
President Trump met with Starmer in DC and both delivered remarks and took questions in a joint press conference.
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