When is a trade deal not a trade deal?
Do you remember where you were on TD Day, 2025? Do you remember what you were doing when you heard the news that a “truly historic” treaty had been signed between the UK and US? Trade Deal Day, 8 May 2025, was – for this government – a very big deal indeed.
Keir Starmer will be able to tell you exactly where he was; hunched over an Apprentice-style speakerphone in a meeting room at Jaguar Land Rover, while his emissary Lord Mandelson purred in the Oval Office, standing behind Donald Trump who had, hours earlier, demanded that the two leaders announce........
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