The Week: Who Benefits Most From the UK-US Deal?

Newscast

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Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Today, the UK and US have both described the deal as a success - but who really benefits from their tariff agreement?

Adam and Alex are joined by Dharshini David, BBC deputy economics editor and James Landale the BBC’s diplomatic correspondent to discuss the deal, and whether this has turned around a tricky week for the PM.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.6	Well, I'm glad you could all make it for this episode
0:06.3	because lots of our colleagues who cover politics for the newspaper,
0:10.1	as known as the lobby, were sent to the wrong Jaguar Land Rover today
0:14.2	to see the Prime Minister talking to Donald Trump.
0:16.5	Yeah.
0:16.7	There was a little bit of a postcode mix up,
0:19.3	which made me think, have you ever been in the wrong place for a big news story?
0:23.9	Yes, probably.
0:25.5	I don't know if you can call it the wrong place.
0:28.7	It definitely wouldn't say it was the wrong place, but I can remember perhaps an inconvenient place, which was when, with the other program I do, any questions, which I like to plug.
0:36.7	So we go around the country every week and go to a different place.
0:39.2	And we were in Gereloch in the northwest Thailand of Scotland, which is quite inaccessible.
0:44.5	And we had a lovely panel of Scottish politicians set up to be on.
0:47.3	And then Rishi Sunnet called the election.
0:49.2	And suddenly every party wanted to put one of its big heavyweights on
0:53.2	because it was like firing the starting
0:54.6	gun in the election campaign. So we had to then transport them all from Westminster to Gereloch
0:58.8	on a Friday afternoon, which is not the easiest thing to do. Like a politician airdrop.
1:04.1	Yeah. Yeah. If you could have airdrop them, it would have been easier, put it that way.
1:07.4	Well, I had a moment in the 2001 election when I was following Tony Blair
1:11.8	and he was harangued by a woman called Sharon Storer in Birmingham, I think it was. And it was
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