At a press briefing on Thursday, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer was asked about polling about a trade deal with the US vs the EU.
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00:00Prime Minister, all the polling shows that the British people think an improved trade deal with the European Union is more important than a US trade deal. The British people are right, aren't they?
00:18Well, Robert, you're already minutes after this deal with the US, still pushing me back. Should we choose between the US and the EU? No is the answer to that question.
00:30I genuinely believe that we can have a good relationship and agreement with the US and a good relationship and agreement with the EU.
00:41That's why the red lines have been really important in the way that we've been negotiating with this.
00:46Look what we've shown this week, that through patience, through pragmatism, and through putting, not doing politics and performance, but doing politics as a serious art of negotiation.
00:59We've got a deal in 48,000 a year in India, which of course also deals with the Carman country, by the way.
01:06We've got the deal now with the US. We go on on Monday week to the EU-UK summit.
01:15And I've always said that the strength of the UK is being able to deal both with the US and the EU on security in place and on trade with the European economy.
01:26And that's the basis of what we move through. And I think the workforce here would say to you in very loud terms, thank goodness,
01:34it didn't say to the advice of others to walk away from negotiations with the US.
01:39Because it would be vague, it would pay the price if we could come back and I wasn't prepared for that happen.
01:45Thank you, Robert.