Americano: is the trade deal a coup for Starmer?

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🗓️ 12 May 2025

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Trump has announced a beautiful new deal with the United Kingdom. The Prime Minister and President shared a phone call to congratulate one another. It is the first trade deal agreed after Mr Trump began his second presidential term in January, and after he imposed strict tariffs on countries around the world in April. Freddy Gray speaks to Sarah Eliot and Kate Andrews about the negotiations and whether it is a coup for Trump or Starmer.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast, a series of discussions about American politics, power and prejudices.
0:15.3	It is 2025 and Donald Trump is president once again of the United States.
0:21.9	We will, of course, be following the moves of the Donald and his second administration very closely.
0:28.5	However, it won't just be politics for us this year.
0:31.3	We'll also talk a lot and cover American culture, life and the arts.
0:37.2	I should also remind you, because my producer, Natasha, will not let me hear the end of it,
0:41.8	that we are on Spectator TV.
0:44.6	So head to our YouTube channel to watch that.
0:48.3	Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast.
0:51.5	Habamus trade deal.
0:54.0	Donald Trump and Kier Stama, the British Prime
0:56.4	Minister, have just gotten off the phone for a sort of typically ridiculous, but quite
1:02.4	extraordinary press conference where they announced a big, shiny, beautiful new trade deal
1:08.2	between Britain and the United States. To discuss this very important
1:13.7	and pressing subjects, I'm delighted to be joined by Sarah Elliott of the Prosperity Institute,
1:19.3	who looks after a special US-UK trade division within that, and our very own Kate Andrews,
1:25.9	who is Deputy US Editor of The Spectator.
1:30.6	I'll start with you, Sarah.
1:32.2	Presumably this is the sort of thing you've been campaigning for,
1:35.9	and we have to acknowledge that it is a step in the right direction,
1:41.3	even if a lot of things remain unclear.
1:45.2	Correct. I mean, let's focus on the positives here. One, the UK is the first official deal
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