Labour MPs urge ministers to focus on rebuilding trading relationship with EU

MPs said UK could “get a sugar rush of growth” instead of hoping for preferential treatment from Washington. Photograph: Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock

Ministers should focus on rebuilding bridges with the EU, Labour politicians have said, after a senior adviser to Donald Trump downplayed the prospect of a breakthrough with the US.

MPs said the government should “prioritise our trading relationship with the EU” and “get a sugar rush of growth” instead of banking on the prospect of preferential treatment from Washington.