Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer will reportedly tap veteran left-wing politico Lord Peter Mandelson to serve as the next ambassador from Britain to the United States.
The rubber is about to hit the road for the leftist Labour Party government in Britain as it looks towards dealing with its most important ally in the United States with Donald Trump at the helm, a man whom top cabinet members and even the prime minister have publicly insulted for years.
Britain agreed to a trade deal with Texas as the UK government continues its strategy of inking agreements with individual American states.
The United Kingdom has reportedly made “rapid progress” in securing a post-Brexit trade deal with the British commonwealth nation of New Zealand, which would see British companies enjoy greater access to the market and cheaper food imports back to the UK.
Negotiations for a free trade agreement between the United Kingdom and the United States have been postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a British government source speaking to The Telegraph.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is said to be putting the UK’s future trade deals at risk by delaying international trips.
In its annual list of ‘Heroes and Villains’, a UK based polling company found that a plurality of people in Britain think United States President Donald Trump is the world’s biggest villain, beating out the likes of Jeremy Corbyn and Jeffrey Epstein.
U.S. ambassador to the UK Woody Johnson has said that Prime Minister Boris Johnson and President Donald Trump are going to have a “sensational” relationship, adding that the UK was at the “front of the line” for bilateral free trade talks.
Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage has said that he plans to send his own trade delegation to the U.S. as he does not believe the British government has done “any serious work” on a post-Brexit bilateral trade deal “at all”.
U.S. President Donald J Trump has expressed his “love” for the United Kingdom and his “respect” for the Queen in an interview where he discussed his ties to Britain and his Scottish mother who loved the Royal Family.
U.S. national security adviser John Bolton has said that President Donald J Trump is a “strong supporter of Brexit” and is looking forward to negotiating with Brexit Britain.
President Trump’s National Security Advisor John Bolton has offered some words of assurances to the British people on the day the UK was supposed to leave the European Union, saying the United States is eager to do a bilateral trade deal and the UK remains at “top of the queue.”
U.S. Ambassador to the UK Woody Johnson has said that a “quick, very massive” American-British bilateral trade deal “doesn’t look like it would be possible” if MPs support Prime Minister Theresa May’s EU Withdrawal Agreement in the New Year.
President Donald J. Trump has said that the British government’s proposed soft Brexit plan “will probably kill” a bilateral trade deal with the U.S., and he criticised Prime Minister Theresa May for ignoring his advice on dealing with the European Union.
In polling released just hours before the U.S. President is due to touch down in London, 50 per cent of Britons support Donald J. Trump’s UK visit going ahead.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has warned that the new European Union data law could create a barrier to U.S.-UK trade post-Brexit and may obstruct vital transatlantic data sharing in the fight against terror.
