Bolton’s UK Trade-Deal Promise Leaves Questions Unanswered

U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton answers questions from the media outside the White House in Washington, on January 24, 2019. Win McNamee/Getty Images

LONDON—British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Aug. 13 that getting a free trade deal with the United States would be “a tough old haggle,” after U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton promised the U.K. quick sector-by-sector trade deals once it leaves the European Union.

Bolton said after meeting Johnson on Aug. 12 that “it might be possible to reach a bilateral agreement very quickly, very straightforwardly” in some areas of trade after Brexit.