This month seems to be a good one for agreeing Trade deals with the Indian one announced on Tuesday and an American one due to be announced today although today's is a Trade Agreement which, i am reliably informed, is an agreement to negotiate what issues to discuss at some point in the future which is not quite the 'full and comprehensive' deal being trumpeted by the American side.
In Downing Street the PM’s spokesperson ducked questions about just how 'full and comprehensive' it will be by saying that: 'Keir Starmer would be describing it in his own words when he speaks later today' which may be interesting as Keir Starmer has a frustrating way of saying lots of words without actually saying anything.
Although not giving out any details, the Government are saying that we will not be lowering our food standards to accept Chlorinated Chicken or Hormone treated Beef so sorry Americans, you will just have to carry on poisoning yourselves with that muck, we don't want it.
Trump seems to have made the same mistake as the Brexit supporters who assumed that as America is big we need them more than they need us and nations would come running to sign up for deals but found out that the rest of the world is bigger and now he has to hurry about trying to tie up trade deals himself, this agreement being announced today began three Prime Ministers ago under Boris Johnson but Trump will try to spin it as a result of his tariff's meltdowns because he needs some wins, however how spurious.
With India trading 2% with the UK and America 20%, both are very nice thank you but the real deal is going to come on May 19th when the trade deal with the EU is announced where we do over 50% of our trading.
Calling it a re-set, Britain and the 27 nation EU are set to announce a huge softening of the disastrous Brexit deal the Conservatives negotiated when we lost the plot and left the largest Single Market in the World in 2016 and some Brexiteers are calling it a reversal of Brexit by the back door and I am fine with that because it has been a disaster which has shaved 4% off our GDP so if we can claw some of that back and integrate back into the EU then I am all for it.