Starmer praised Trump’s team of negotiators for reaching a fair agreement, calling it ‘a truly amazing, historic day’. He described their work as “an incredible job, a very professional job.”
The prime minister thinks that “this is going to boost trade, between and across our countries.” “It’s going to not only protect jobs, but create jobs, opening market access.”
Because it was “eighty years ago today that victory came for Europe after and at the end of the Second World War,” the 62-year-old said that “the timing couldn’t be more apt.”
‘The UK and the US stood together as the closest of allies’ at the time, he said. “To be able to announce this great deal on the same day, 80 years forward,
Almost at the same hour – and as we were 80 years ago with the UK, the US standing side by side – I think is incredibly important and makes this truly historic,” he said.
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick explained how the two nations reached an agreement, saying: “They have agreed to open their markets, which will add five billion US dollars of opportunity to American exporters.”
