UK–US Free Trade Talks Won’t Start Any Time Soon, Truss Admits

UK–US Free Trade Talks Won’t Start Any Time Soon, Truss Admits
UK Prime Minister Liz Truss speaks to journalists at the Empire State Building in New York, on Sept. 20, 2022. Toby Melville/PA Media
Alexander Zhang
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Negotiations for a post-Brexit free trade deal between the UK and the United States will not restart in the short to medium term, UK Prime Minister Liz Truss has conceded.

Truss, who is set to hold talks with U.S. President Joe Biden at a United Nations summit on Wednesday, downplayed the chance of talks resuming on a comprehensive transatlantic trade deal that had been billed by Brexit supporters as a major benefit of leaving the European Union during the 2016 referendum campaign.