US President says post-Brexit UK-US trade deal to happen "very quickly"

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Donald Trump says trade deal with UK will be agreed "very very quickly" as he meets Theresa May at the G20 summit. https://t.co/z2NzQ4dbJx

— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) July 8, 2017

G20: UK-US trade deal to happen quickly, says Trump

US President holds post-Brexit trade talks with Britain's Prime Minister

US President Donald Trump has said he expects a "powerful" trade deal with the UK to be completed "very quickly".

Speaking at the G20 summit in Hamburg, he said he would visit London. Asked when, he said: "We'll work that out." In one-to-one talks, Mr Trump and UK Prime Minister Theresa May agreed to prioritise work on a post-Brexit trade deal, a UK government official said.

The president made it clear he believed Britain would "thrive" once it had left the European Union, the official added. In the 50-minute meeting - which overran by 20 minutes - the two leaders spent a "significant" amount of time on trade, in a discussion described as entirely "positive".

Mrs May did not raise Mr Trump's decision to pull the US out of the Paris Agreement on tackling climate change during their formal talks. UK officials said she did raise the issue as they walked between meetings, saying Mrs May told him "face-to-face that she hopes the US will rejoin".

Before their meeting, Mr Trump hailed the "very special relationship" he had developed with Mrs May. "There is no country that could possibly be closer than our countries," he told reporters. "We have been working on a trade deal which will be a very, very big deal, a very powerful deal, great for both countries and I think we will have that done very, very quickly."

Under EU rules, formal talks between London and Washington cannot begin until after the UK leaves the EU in March 2019, without EU agreement. Sir Christopher Meyer, a former British ambassador to Washington, said Mr Trump's statement of intent was a "very good sign for the future" and would be "useful" to Mrs May.

Didn't the great Obama threaten us that we'd be at the back of the queue?

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I said that it was probably not awful for the UK if Trump won cos he's such a Britophile and would give a good trade deal. Let's just see if he can make it to when we're allowed to negotiate trade deals before he gets impeached or resigns...

[FlyingJesus]

But nah should be ok, the one good thing about Trump is that he does seem to prefer just going ahead with shit (or at least trying to) rather than be sly and try blocking everything like Merkeltron does

[Neversoft]

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Australian PM in London at the moment and holding a joint-press conference with British PM.

So much for the "Little England" jibe from the Remain campaign during the referendum!

May: The UK and Australia trade relationship is worth close to £14bn. Will deepen trade relationship post-Brexit. FTA a priority.

— BrexitCentral (@BrexitCentral) July 10, 2017

May: We agreed we should strengthen the Commonwealth's relevance to future generations in the years ahead.

— BrexitCentral (@BrexitCentral) July 10, 2017

Turnbull: The culture, the laws, the traditions of the United Kingdom were brought as part of the heritage of modern Australia.

— BrexitCentral (@BrexitCentral) July 10, 2017

Turnbull: Your post-Brexit Britain, Theresa, will be one with big horizons and free trade. That is where your future prosperity will come.

— BrexitCentral (@BrexitCentral) July 10, 2017

Turnbull: trade deal "as soon as Britain is lawfully able to...we're working hard with EU too, and we'd like to get that done before Brexit"

— Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) July 10, 2017

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Not very British of us is it