After a week of pomp and ceremony, visits from world leaders and reflections on grandeur past, Britain has been brought back down to earth with a bump. There is to be no trade deal with the United States, and that is not likely to change.
On the way to her first meeting as Prime Minister with President Biden, Liz Truss told journalists that even the start of talks about such a deal were a long way off. “There isn’t currently any negotiation taking place with the US,” she said, “and I don’t have an expectation that those are going to start in the short to medium term.”
