UK needs new EU trade deal, not scraps from the White House

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British prime minister Keir Starmer and US president Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington in February. Photograph: JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images A free trade agreement with the US was one of the big carrots dangled in front of UK voters by Brexiteers. There was talk it might boost UK-US trade by £40 billion a year. Back in 2019, then British prime minister Boris Johnson pegged it as a tonic to ease the pain of breaking with Europe, the UK’s largest trade partner. At the time US president Donald Trump whet appetites by promising...