Kemi Badenoch says the UK-US trade agreement is "not a historic deal". The Conservative Party leader adds it is simply a "small tariffs deal" that leaves the country in a "worse position than we were in March". Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00So just to be clear, this is not a free trade agreement. This was not what we were signing.
00:05What's happened is a small tariff deal to fix some of the changes which Donald Trump made last month.
00:12We are now in a worse position than we were in March. That's not something to write home about.
00:19The tariffs we were paying on cars were about 2 to 3 percent. Now they are 10 percent.
00:24We have not improved any situation at all in terms of tariffs compared to when Labour came into office where Conservatives left office.
00:31That is the problem. And I keep saying that when Britain, you know, when Labour negotiates, Britain loses.
00:37This is not a historic deal. This is, you know, this is something that businesses will welcome because it's better than last month.
00:44It's not better than two months ago. We should be doing a lot better than this.
00:47And we should go and get an actual free trade agreement, not just little bits of tariff deals here and there.
00:52This is the second deal in two days that Labour has done that is not good.
00:56And I'm quite worried at their ability to put Britain first and negotiate for this country.