Donald Trump and Sir Keir Starmer have hailed the moment as “historic” after they formally announced a UK-US trade deal.

James O’Brien offers his analysis of the news.

‘This deal is good in the context of the country we are today,’ he says, but concedes that the UK ‘came to the table in a position of serious weakness’ and ‘we are simply not the nation we once were’.

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