The chief secretary to the Treasury has accused Kemi Badenoch of posting her views about the UK's trade deal with the US on social media before reading it. Darren Jones adds the government continues to negotiate with the EU, but will honour Labour's manifesto pledge not to rejoin the single market or customs union. 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 we've secured preferential access for UK medicines going into the United States economy.
00:05There are lots of medicines in the US that rely on the UK supply chain, for example.
00:10And of course, there are not tariffs in place on UK pharmaceuticals, which was the worry.
00:16Likewise, in the film and creative sectors, there are not tariffs in place.
00:19So we've been able to protect that status for UK services that work in that area.
00:24But look, there's other things that we want to negotiate, that we're already negotiating,
00:28and we'll continue to negotiate with the United States, as well as with the European Union
00:32and other countries around the world in sectors, for example, in technology and defence and so on and so forth.
00:37So there'll be more to come, and we're in active negotiations with the Americans and many others.
00:42I'm just not sure the Conservative Party is a serious political party at the moment.
00:46Kimmy Badenoch obviously took to Twitter before she'd read anything, and it's not for me to advise them,
00:52but if they want to be considered a credible party of government again, they might need to stop behaving like it.
00:56We will honour our manifesto commitments, so we will not be rejoining the single market and the customs union.
01:02But we do think there's a lot of room to be had between the trade deal that Boris Johnson signed up to
01:06and not rejoining the economic institutions of the European Union.
01:10So that's what our negotiators are working on at the moment.
01:13That's the right thing to do.
01:14The European Union is our largest trading bloc partner in the world.
01:17We think there are lots of benefits and advantages to that.
01:20And as I say, more detail will be published in due course.