Truss’ NI Protocol Bill has put US trade deal on ice

Responding to reports that the long-awaited US-UK trade deal will not be on the agenda for discussions between Liz Truss and Joe Biden, Hilary Benn MP, co-convenor of the UK Trade and Business Commission said: 

“Given her determination to rip up the Northern Ireland Protocol and break international law with her Bill, it’s not in the least bit surprising that the Prime Minister has now been forced to admit that the long-promised US trade deal has been kicked into the long grass. She knows that there is strong bi-partisan opposition in Washington to what she is doing. 

“Three weeks into her premiership and six years after the EU referendum, the big promise that we would quickly get a trade deal with the USA remains what it always was - a very distant prospect.”