UK signs agreement to boost trade with Florida

Trade secretary Kemi Badenoch said: ‘Florida is a major economy in its own right, with a bigger GDP than most European countries.’ Photograph: James Veysey/Shutterstock

The UK’s business and trade secretary has signed a deal to increase trade with Florida, the British government’s latest pact with a single American state as it awaits a broader, post-Brexit US free trade agreement.

The memorandum of understanding, signed on Tuesday by Kemi Badenoch and the Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, is the seventh deal between the UK and individual US states.