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ALEX BRUMMER: This is why the UK-US trade deal is NOT the triumph that Starmer wants us to think it is

ALEX BRUMMER: This is why the UK-US trade deal is NOT the triumph that Starmer wants us to think it is

Anyone listening to the love-in between Donald Trump and Keir Starmer as they announced their trade deal might conclude this was the greatest day in the post-war history of the two peoples.

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