Being free from the tentacles of Brussels means we won’t be strangled when the US President imposes tariffs on the EU. Trump essentially wants Britain to buy more goods from the US. A trade deal between the two nations would certainly achieve this and enhance the special relationship between us and the US.

Two weeks into his second term, President Donald Trump has launched the United States into a new trade war. He announced steep new tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico and China — the three largest U.

By Yoruk Bahceli, Tom Westbrook, Naomi Rovnick and Chuck Mikolajczak LONDON/SINGAPORE/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Financial markets that had banked on avoiding trade wars are recalibrating the possibility of a sharp global slowdown,