On May 8, US President Donald Trump heralded what he described as a “breakthrough” deal with the United Kingdom, the first of what he said would be many newly-agreed arrangements with America’s trading partners. Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s agreement with his transatlantic counterpart is perhaps unsurprising given the warm relations that have developed between the two leaders since Trump returned to the White House. A similar deal with the European Union, an institution Trump said was designed to “screw” the US, seems much further afield. In the Rose Garden last month, on the so-called liberation day, Trump announced that the…

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