Our Trade With the US Isn’t Actually That Important – Guido Fawkes

Reeves in Washington: Our Trade With the US Isn’t Actually That Important

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Reeves has been in Washington D.C for IMF meetings and has been working on hashing out a trade deal with the US at the same time. In a sign of how that’s going she this morning says the trading relationship isn’t all that important:

“I understand why there’s so much focus on our trading relationship with the US but actually our trading relationship with Europe is arguably even more important, because they’re our nearest neighbours and trading partners.”

Despite frenzied reporting from UK reporters at the time no trade deal has so far surfaced between the US and the UK. Reeves adds to the BBC: “Obviously I’ve been meeting Scott Bessent this week whilst I’m in Washington, but I’ve also this week met the French, the German, the Spanish, the Polish, the Swedish, the Finnish finance ministers.” Trade talks going well then…