The EU’s strategy is to speak with one voice as the US president uses the threat of steep tariff hikes to try to persuade countries, like Switzerland , to sign bilateral trade deals that would be advantageous to America.

The deal covers just five pages of text providing only the outline of an agreement that was pulled together in just six weeks following US President Donald Trump’s “liberation day” tariffs announcement on April 2.

Keir Starmer’s trade deal with Donald Trump didn’t impress a correspondent The reported trade deal between the UK and US seems a positive step in transatlantic relations but if Keir Starmer thinks he can now relax a little and just let it all happen,