U.S. President Donald Trump has revealed that his administration is already working on a trade deal with British prime minister Boris Johnson, which he predicts will boost British-American trade by three, four, perhaps even five times.
The United States is already the United Kingdom’s single-biggest trade and investment partner and most important security partner, but the British government has been unable to supercharge the special relationship with the U.S. with a trade deal because the European Union does not allow its member-states to conduct an independent trade policy.
But President Donald Trump now says he has spoken by phone with new British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and that discussions on a “very substantial” trade deal were already underway.
“I predict he’ll be a great prime minister,” Trump said, calling Johnson a “good guy” minutes after ending the conversation on Friday.
“We’re working on a trade agreement already,” Trump said, adding: “I think it will be a very substantial trade agreement.”
“They’ve needed him a long time,” Trump said of fellow conservative Johnson.
U.S. Ambassador: Trump and Johnson Will Have ‘Sensational’ Relationship, UK at ‘Front of Line’ for Trade Deal https://t.co/wcqhDQw5oK
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In London, a Downing Street spokesperson said Trump and Johnson had “both expressed their commitment to delivering an ambitious free trade agreement and to starting negotiations as soon as possible after the UK leaves the EU.”
Johnson has touted Britain’s future as an independent trading country striking numerous bilateral deals outside of the massive EU alliance, which collectively negotiates with Washington.
Trump: “You know we can do with the UK, we can do three to four times — we were actually impeded by their relationship with the European Union; we were very much impeded on trade — and I think we can do three to four or five times what we’re doing,” he explained.
“We don’t do the kind of trade we could do with what some people say is Great Britain, and some people remember a word you don’t hear too much is the word England, which is a piece of it,” he added as something of an aside — seemingly a somewhat cryptic reference to the was the largest of Britain’s Home Nations has been increasingly erased from public discourse.
The President said he believes Boris Johnson has “what it takes” to be a great prime minister, adding pointedly that the British “needed him for a long time… for a long time” — like an allusion to the American’s low opinion of Theresa May’s handling of Brexit.
The President also praised Queen Elizabeth II, much admired by his late mother Mary, who was originally from Scotland, as a “tremendous woman, incredible woman”.
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