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A very garbled story briefed by folk who seem to have little trade policy understanding. For a start, the word steel does not appear in the US negotiating objectives for a UK FTA. Secondly, which financial services from the UK? 
As @SamuelMarcLowe has pointed out about a thousand times a mini deal for the UK to not put in place a digital tax and the US to not threaten "national security" car tariffs on the UK might be feasible. But that's not...
@SamuelMarcLowe Oh, and about those textiles USTR aims for "Secure duty-free access for U.S. textile and apparel products and seek to improve competitive opportunities for exports of U.S. textile and apparel products while taking into account U.S. import sensitivities."
@SamuelMarcLowe Something our talks with the EU and the US have in common - we think we're this, and they don't... theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
@SamuelMarcLowe Anyway, sorry to bring reality into the day, presume the Labour Party's battle against itself will not take centre stage for the rest of it
