Brexit win as Donald Trump plans special deal for UK to 'pull away from the EU'

Donald Trump is considering a peculiar woody with the UK successful a imaginable boost to Brexit Britain's commercialized with the United States, sources person said.

The president-elect has said helium wants to summation tariffs connected goods imported from astir the satellite by 10%, rising to 60% connected items from China.

Former Financial Times editor, Lionel Barber, citing a Trump source, said connected societal media that a "special" US woody with the UK is nether consideration.

Such a woody was heralded arsenic the biggest prize of Britain's determination to exit the EU, but efforts towards an statement stalled 4 years ago.

Mr Barber said: "Trump feels that neither Tory nor Labour governments person made thing of Brexit. No Singapore successful the Atlantic etc. So helium volition acceptable a test, pulling UK further from EU alignment. Over to you, Keir (Starmer)!"

Charles Grant, Director of the Centre for European Reform, said: "Trump hates the EU but rather likes the UK. He could connection the Brits a privileged presumption (fewer tariffs?) successful Europe truthful agelong arsenic they differentiate themselves from the EU - and don't enactment up intimately with it."

New Jersey Democrat politician Phil Murphy, who knows Mr Trump personally, offered an optimistic appraisal of what a 2nd Trump presidency mightiness mean for British exports, pointing towards Brexit.

Mr Murphy said: "If I had to speculate I would accidental there's a lane for the UK. There's little of a lane for the EU and Nato. There's a lane for the UK to beryllium determined."

Former premier curate Boris Johnson suggested Donald Trump would "certainly" bash a commercialized woody with the UK. He said the US banal marketplace is surging aft the predetermination effect and the president-elect is offering "economic hope".

Mr Johnson, successful his Daily Mail column, added: "What astir the menace of tariffs connected China and others, you say. Well, helium said that past clip - and ended up doing a escaped commercialized woody with Beijing.

"Donald Trump would surely bash a escaped commercialized woody with the UK excessively - though I expect the Starmer Government is excessively pathetic to try."

The Labour Government antecedently announced its priorities connected commercialized would beryllium to onslaught deals with Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, India, Israel, South Korea, Switzerland and Turkey, with the archetypal rounds of negotiations said to beryllium already underway.

Labour's plans for escaped commercialized statement (FTA) negotiations don't notation the United States, with talks astir a imaginable woody having been connected crystal since 2020.

There had been 5 rounds of negotiations earlier efforts cooled erstwhile Joe Biden took bureau successful 2020. Kemi Badenoch, who was past Business Secretary, told Parliament's Business and Trade Committee successful January this twelvemonth that "the Biden medication is not doing FTAs".

Britain does, however, person commercialized agreements with idiosyncratic US states. So-called Memorandums of Understanding person been signed with Indiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Utah, Washington State, Florida and Texas.

Resistance to opening the UK marketplace to US hormone-treated beef and chlorinated chickenhearted were large sticking points successful erstwhile talks betwixt the 2 countries.

UK Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds has said antecedently that Labour has nary appetite to little British nutrient standards for US exporters, according to Politico, which quoted the past Shadow Business Secretary arsenic saying a aboriginal woody would beryllium "difficult" to strike.

If the US wishes to reopen talks, past Sir Keir whitethorn find himself successful a hindrance with Mr Trump seeking to gully the UK person arsenic the PM seeks to reset relations with the European Union.