The United States and the United Kingdom have concluded a trade agreement, US President Donald Trump confirmed on Thursday on social media.
"It is a full and comprehensive agreement," he said, "that will secure the relationship between the two countries for many years to come."
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who has a full day of activities planned to commemorate the end of the Second World War, said in turn that the trade agreement is in the interests of the United Kingdom and will deliver "security" and "innovation".
More details are expected to be announced later today at a press conference by Trump. The latter expects many more trade agreements to follow.
The UK Government declined to comment on US President Donald Trump's claim that the deal expected to be announced would be "full and comprehensive", the BBC reports.
"We've always been clear that we want to do a deal that's in the British national interest, and support a substantial UK-US trading relationship. Those talks are continuing and we look forward to providing an update later today."
At the same time, Downing Street insisted that lowering food standards remained a "red line" for any US trade deal. "We are not going to lower British food standards. That's something set out in the manifesto," the spokesperson told the BBC.
