Well, well, well. While Rachel Reeves enjoys a week in Washington DC at the International Monetary Fund spring talks, back in the UK concerns are mounting about what concessions Britain will have to make to enter into a trade deal with Donald Trump’s America. Fears are growing about what Trump’s current tariffs will means for the future of Britain’s car industry while farmers have raised concerns about chlorinated chicken and food standards. So, on Wednesday, Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey quizzed Sir Keir Starmer about whether he would commit to a parliamentary vote on whatever economic deal gets arranged with the US. The Prime Minister, however, remained curiously non-committal…
‘Will the Prime Minister guarantee a vote in this House on any trade deal that he agrees with the United States here?’ Davey probed Starmer in the Commons yesterday. While the PM first acknowledged that the Lib Dem man’s point was of ‘real interest and importance’, he rather vaguely went on: ‘We will negotiate, as he would expect, in the national interest… We are making progress on that.
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