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The answer, outside the rarefied world of Spectator readers, is almost certainly no. I speak from the experience of working on UK-EU-US relations for three years when we faced huge public opposition. And that was under a President popular in the UK.
For three years since 2016 veterans of TTIP talks have been warning Brexit politicians that a UK-US trade deal would be hugely unpopular and damaging to relations. The last thing the UK needs after a divisive Brexit, an even more divisive trade deal. Dismissed as remainer talk...
Stories like the below are just going to keep coming, whether on food, NHS, regulations, or whateer. The EU or US are not going to be nice to the UK because we say it's in their interests. Neither will show the slightest sentiment. Are we going to learn?
In the increasingly depopulated space between partisan remainers and Brexiteers there are possible pathways for the UK which focus on our own interests and seek to navigate between EU and US. It needs skill, of the type our best diplomats show. And after this week... /end
PS this is probably right, but hard to imagine the US agriculture companies who have been lobbying Brexiteer MPs intensively would be happy with it huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/uk-us-br…
