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The U.K. is out of line. But I'm sure that one, I think, that one can be worked out,
Trump told reporters, adding We realize we’re dealing with a new government with a different set of priorities and it may take them a while to do the internal consideration that they need to do, and that’s understandable,
If we can add on to it, so much the better,
he said, with priority areas being science and tech and innovation, quantum computing and AI In the meantime, we do have a trade agreement in place that is pretty darn good,
Something Trump wants is for the U.K. and European countries to increase their purchases of U.S. energy, which could be [used as] a bargaining chip,
agreed Maxime Darmet, a senior economist at Allianz Trade I think there are going to be a number of bargains that the U.K. might need to put on the table,
Labour MP and Business and Trade Committee Chair Liam Byrne said Better to buy from the States than Qatar,
they said, echoing Kwarteng That’s an area where there’s a U.K. need, and a U.S. desire and U.S. supply … which could be part of that bridge-building.”
Matthew Oresman, partner at the international law firm Pillsbury, said We should be doing everything we can to reduce our reliance on gas,
said Liam Hardy, head of research at the Green Alliance think tank They were very ideological. We were very keen to decarbonize at the time. The U.S. had no truck with that at all. Their priorities were divergent, even if we got on well with his personal interlocutors.”
Speaking of his dealings with the Trump administration during his first term, Kwarteng said The one thing they can do quickly is buy our oil and gas,
Trump said, when asked how the bloc could avoid threatened tariffs If we must import gas, doing this by pipeline from Norway leads to much lower emissions than shipping it from the United States.”
We are going to have to get gas from somewhere if we are producing less in the North Sea,
former Energy Secretary and U.K. Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng told POLITICO, referring to the fast-depleting reserves off the U.K. coast Instead of committing to more LNG imports, risking increasing potential emission impact, the U.K. should continue reducing gas demand by scaling up renewable energy and deploying heat pumps,
Both of these relations are very important to us. We are not choosing between them - but that's historically been the position of the UK for many, many decades,
We have a fair and balanced trading relationship which benefits both sides of the Atlantic,
It's early days and what I want to see is strong trading relations, and in the discussions that I've had with President Trump that's what we have centred on."
Starmer told reporters at the weekend The UK is way out of line,
he told reporters as he returned to Washington from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida We'll see how things work out. It might happen with them, but it will definitely happen with the European Union, I can tell you that."
Asked about Britain and whether it would face tariffs next, Trump said
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