{"id":88937,"date":"2025-05-10T02:28:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T02:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/88937\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T02:28:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T02:28:08","slug":"shock-moment-labour-minister-refuses-to-acknowledge-us-trade-deal-as-brexit-benefit-politics-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/88937\/","title":{"rendered":"Shock moment Labour minister refuses to acknowledge US trade deal as ‘Brexit benefit’ | Politics | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Labour<\/a> minister has repeatedly refused to acknowledge the new US-UK trade deal as a benefit of Brexit<\/a> during a television interview. Darren Jones, who has served as chief secretary to the Treasury since last year, refused to be drawn on whether the trade deal was a Brexit<\/a> benefit during an interview on GB News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Labour minister was questioned by host Ellie Costello, who said: “It’s a Brexit<\/a> benefit as well, isn’t it? We wouldn’t have got this deal if we were inside the EU.”<\/p>\n

Mr Jones replied: “I mean, who knows? I mean, we left the European Union<\/a> a very long time ago. What I do know is that we are the first country in the world to be able to secure a new trade deal with the president of the United States of America.<\/p>\n

“That is a great vindication of the strategy of the Prime Minister in being able to negotiate that with the president.”<\/p>\n

Pressing Mr Jones further, Costello followed up saying: “But we know that Donald Trump<\/a> does not think fondly of the European Union<\/a>. I mean, he describes the European Union<\/a> as shafting the US. If we were still inside the European Union<\/a>, we wouldn’t have got this deal.”<\/p>\n

Again, Mr Jones refused to be drawn, replying: “As I say, it’s kind of an old argument. What I do know is that the UK has been able to get this deal with the United States of America, and that’s very good news indeed.”<\/p>\n

President Trump announced the deal at the White House on Thursday, in a ceremony attended by US officials and UK ambassador Lord Peter Mandelson.<\/p>\n

Mr Trump said the agreement was “a great deal for both countries”, and confirmed the UK would “reduce or eliminate numerous non-tariff barriers” under its terms.<\/p>\n

As part of the deal, the US will remove tariffs on UK steel and aluminium and reduce levies on cars from 27.5% to 10%.<\/p>\n

Mr Jones made the point that the UK was “the first country in the world” to secure a deal with the US administration, praising the opportunities afforded to British beef farmers.<\/p>\n

He added: “I back British beef. I think it\u2019s a good quality product.”<\/p>\n

During the Oval Office event on Thursday, Mr Trump called the UK a “most cherished” ally and said the agreement affirmed the “reciprocity and fairness” he said was essential to international trade.<\/p>\n

While the final details of the deal have not yet been written, the president confirmed they would be in the coming weeks, and that the agreement was a “conclusive one”.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer<\/a> phoned into the gathering, saying it was a “fantastic, historic day\u00a3 and that “economic security is national security”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Labour minister has repeatedly refused to acknowledge the new US-UK trade deal as a benefit of Brexit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,5322,748,6216,32,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,3058,807,528,28300,2916,1219,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-88937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-brexit-news","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-darren-jones","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-eu","14":"tag-europe","15":"tag-european","16":"tag-european-union","17":"tag-great-britain","18":"tag-international-trade","19":"tag-keir-starmer","20":"tag-labour-party","21":"tag-peter-mandelson","22":"tag-trade-deals","23":"tag-trade-war","24":"tag-uk","25":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114481181735208484","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}