Sir Keir Starmer has despatched congratulations to Donald Trump forward of his inauguration as president on Monday saying the UK and US would “proceed to construct upon the unshakeable foundations of our historic alliance”.
The prime minister stated they’d “deal with “world challenges” and “concentrate on shared alternatives forward for development”, including the “particular relationship between the UK and the US will proceed to flourish for years to come back”.
A treasury minister earlier stated the UK authorities was optimistic in regards to the possibilities of relationship with the incoming US administration, highlighting “alternatives” round a possible post-Brexit commerce deal.
Nevertheless, Reform UK chief Nigel Farage has claimed Sir Keir is in a “weak” negotiating place as a result of his want to strengthen ties with the EU similtaneously with the US.
Forward of the US Election, Sir Keir and Trump met in New York at Trump Tower.
In a press release on Sunday, Sir Keir stated: “Since our first assembly in September, the president and I’ve spoken about the necessity to deepen and put money into the transatlantic relationship.”
Sir Keir stated: “I sit up for our subsequent assembly as we proceed our shared mission to make sure the peace, prosperity and safety of our two nice nations.”
He stated: “For hundreds of years, the connection between our two nations has been one in every of collaboration, cooperation and enduring partnership. It’s a uniquely shut bond.”
He added the “depth of friendship will proceed throughout the Atlantic”.
Trump risk to impose tariffs and what his return to Washington may imply for US help for Ukraine could possibly be among the many first points raised throughout his second time period.
On the ORIONEWS’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Darren Jones Jones steered the UK may dodge Trump’s pledge for a 20% tax on all imports into the US as a result of not being in a “commerce deficit”, including ministers have “ready for all eventualities”.
He stated the federal government “have to see what the Trump administration do” but additionally that Trump is “well-known for desirous to do deal”.
In the meantime, talking to the ORIONEWS from Washington, the place she is attending Trump’s inauguration, shadow international secretary Priti Patel stated there have been “hopes for his administration”.
“We have to proceed to construct upon that and at a time when our world is going through so many world challenges… we have to be certain that our strongest and closest ally is absolutely in lock step with us,” she stated.
Patel continued: “From Britain’s views it additionally means reopening discussions round a commerce deal.”
Farage stated the federal government must “assume outdoors the field” when coping with the Trump administration.
Talking to ORIONEWS Radio 4’s The Westminster Hour, Farage stated: “I feel what this authorities does, is what all governments do – they keep on with the established, establishment strategies of appointing folks.
“This man [Trump] does enterprise in another way to anyone else we have seen in world politics earlier than.”
Farage, a long-time supporter of Trump, has beforehand supplied to behave as a go-between in negotiations with the president-elect however has up to now been rejected by the federal government.
“They do not assume they want me – however they may discover in brief order that perhaps they do,” he stated.
Elsewhere, Ed Davey, Chief of the Liberal Democrats, stated that Trump’s return to the White Home could be “deeply worrying for hundreds of thousands of individuals within the UK and world wide.”
“With a President who guarantees commerce wars, undermines Nato and praises Vladimir Putin, the threats to our nationwide safety and our economic system are clear,” he stated.