Sunak seeks to resell US relationship as 'economic alliance' - but trade deal hopes are dead

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Sunak seeks to resell US relationship as 'economic alliance' - but trade deal hopes are dead
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Plans for a comprehensive free trade agreement between the UK and the US are no longer on the cards, with No 10 stressing the PM’s hopes that progress can instead be made through sectoral agreements

between the UK and the US are no longer on the cards, with No 10 stressing the PM’s hopes that progress can instead be made through sectoral agreements.

Mr Sunak departed London on Tuesday night and was due to spend Wednesday meeting with US business leaders and lawmakers, as well as military personnel. The Prime Minister’s spokesman said the UK and US economies pointed to new challenges posed by hostile states to natural disasters and said that the economic alliance between the two nations should be elevated “to the same status as our defence cooperation”.

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