Starmer in push to wrap up trade deal with Trump

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Sir Keir Starmer has said he will meet US President Donald Trump for “one-on-one” talks at a major global summit in a push to get the US-UK trade deal over the finish line. The prime minister said he expected the economic pact to be completed “very soon” ahead of a meeting with Mr Trump at the G7 conference in Canada. Britain’s long-coveted free trade deal with Washington was agreed upon last month but is yet to be implemented, with both sides yet to take the necessary steps to reduce tariffs. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00I'm certainly seeing President Trump today and I'm going to discuss with him our trade deal.

00:05I'm very pleased that we made that trade deal and we're in the final stages now of implementation

00:10and I expect that to be completed very soon. But yes, I'll be discussing that with President Trump

00:14along with another number of other things with President Trump. I'll be having a one-on-one

00:18with him. I think I'm seeing him on a number of occasions today because we're in all of the

00:22sessions together. So I'll be having a lot of conversations with President Trump. But we will

00:27be talking about our trade deal because that really matters for the vital sectors that are

00:32safeguarded under our deal. And so we've got to implement that now. We're in the final stages.

00:37I'm really pleased that we're the only country that's got a deal and that we're at those final

00:43stages of implementing it.

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