Politics latest: ‘James Bond has nothing to worry about,’ says Trump after striking tariffs deal with PM

Progress for the prime minister, but tariffs remain By James Matthews, US correspondent It felt like modern politics unplugged. There’s no easy choreography at a presidential news conference inside the Oval Office – take Donald Trump’s unveiling of this UK-US trade deal. There was the president, flanked by deal negotiators on either side, a shoulders-back Team America, with Peter Mandelson, UK ambassador, standing as the Brit in the line-up. So far, so presentational. Then there was the cast member who joined remotely: Britain’s prime minister was dialled into the phone on the Resolute Desk but was kept on hold while…