For frankness, it is hard to beat Liz Truss’s admission that it will take years to secure a trade deal with the USA, the biggest economy in the West. So much for the benefits of Brexit, which was meant to release us from the shackles of the European Union and set buccaneering Britain on the high seas of free market deals.
Now Prime Minister Truss looks as hapless as her predecessor, Boris Johnson, who boasted that while his pal Donald Trump was in office we would be in the front of the queue for a deal. Now it is no deal.
Brexit has cost billions in lost trade with the EU, endangered the peace process in Northern Ireland and left Britain adrift from what should be its closest economic ally, the US. To top it all, President Joe Biden has expressed his hatred of the trickle down theory of economics.
