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The question you should be asking is, is it better than where we were yesterday?
And I think if you should come out when you finished asking me questions and talk to the workforce here, because what this does is to reduce to zero the tariffs on steel and aluminium. Look how important that is.
Reduces massively from 27.5% to 10% of tariffs on the cars that we export – so important to JLR, actually to the sector generally. But JLR in particular, who sell so many cars into the American market.
And of course, it also includes pharmaceuticals, some really important measures. Obviously, we don’t have tariffs yet [in pharmaceuticals], but we’ve got within the deal significantly preferential treatment whatever happens in the future. So this is hugely important for our pharmaceutical sector as well.
In addition to that, we said we had red lines on standards, particularly in agriculture. We’ve kept to those standards.
We respect each other, the president and I, and we trust each other, and have trusted each other through this process, each of us mandating our negotiating teams to get the best deal for our respective countries.
He trusts Trump.Meanwhile if I was a UK citizen I'd be counting the days to the next election.
Q: [From the BBC] Is the UK better off under this deal than it was six months ago, before President Trump introduced his tariffs?
Starmer rejects the premise of the question.
Q: How do you know President Trump won’t just post something on Truth Social ripping this all up?
Starmer says there is a written text. He says he and Trump trust each other.
Meanwhile if I was a UK citizen I'd be counting the days to the next election.
Q: [From the BBC] Is the UK better off under this deal than it was six months ago, before President Trump introduced his tariffs?
Starmer rejects the premise of the question.
Q: How do you know President Trump won’t just post something on Truth Social ripping this all up?
Starmer says there is a written text. He says he and Trump trust each other.
Reporter: “… now thousands of dock workers and truck drivers are worried about their jobs “
Trump [interrupting question] “that means we lose less money. When I see that, that means we lose less money. Look, China was making over a trillion, $1.1 Trillion in my opinion, you know you have different numbers from $500 billion to a trillion or a trillion-one, I think it was $1.1 trillion and frankly if we didn’t do business we would have been better off, OK, you understand that, so when you say it slowed down, that’s a good thing, not a bad thing. But we’re going to make it so they can, I’d like to say they’ll do better actually in terms of the bottom line. Uh we’d like to see China opened up so we can compete in China …”
For several years, we’ve campaigned with the UK’s agricultural attachés in Washington for market access for British beef, a product globally respected for its quality and strong environmental credentials. These efforts have contributed to enabling the UK government to secure ring-fenced access for British beef exports to the US.
However, the inclusion of a significant volume of bioethanol in the deal raises concerns for British arable farmers. We’ll be engaging closely with our members to help them understand and prepare for the potential impact.
Our biggest concern is that two agricultural sectors [beef and ethanol] have been singled out to shoulder the heavy burden of the removal of tariffs for other industries in the economy. While we understand this, we also know that today is the start, not the end, of a process and UK agriculture cannot continue to shoulder such imbalances in future negotiations.
JD Vance continues playing sycophant peanut gallery laugh track for Trump (here and at Trump’s comments about Buttigieg and Crocket that I put in the current events thread).
Under the arrangements that determine how parliament approves treaties, there is no guarantee that MPs get a vote on trade deals. In the US and the EU, Congress and the European Parliament do vote on trade deals.When it comes to any trade deal – and especially one with someone as unreliable as Donald Trump – the devil will be in the detail. One thing is clear, Trump’s trade tariffs are still hitting key British industries, threatening the livelihoods of people across the UK.
The government must now publish the full details of this deal and give MPs a vote. It would show complete disrespect to the public if this deal was waved through without giving parliament a say.
When Labour negotiates, Britain loses.
We cut our tariffs — America tripled theirs.
Keir Starmer called this ‘historic.’ It’s not historic, we’ve just been shafted!
That's all lip service, no one trust Trump. Just look at all if the agreements he is currently disregarding. What's to stop him from changing this one, next week?Meanwhile if I was a UK citizen I'd be counting the days to the next election.
Q: [From the BBC] Is the UK better off under this deal than it was six months ago, before President Trump introduced his tariffs?
Starmer rejects the premise of the question.
Q: How do you know President Trump won’t just post something on Truth Social ripping this all up?
Starmer says there is a written text. He says he and Trump trust each other.
Could you help me decipher Bradshaw's statement? I feel as though I'm missing a few things.NFU says 2 agricultural sectors having to bear 'heavy burden' to allow removal of tariffs in other sectors
The National Farmers Union has welcomed aspects of the US-UK trade deal, but expressed concerns in particular about the tariff on ethanol being lifted.
Tom Bradshaw, the NFU president, said: