Enda Brady: UK correspondent on Rachel Reeves dashing UK hopes of early US trade deal

The UK is still hoping to work out a trade deal with the US - but early reports indicate it's quite a way off.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves recently arrived in Washington DC, and she's warned negotiations will take time.

UK correspondent Enda Brady says the UK economy needs the extra help, but it's unlikely a deal will come by the end of the week.

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 3 (00:20):
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Speaker 2 (00:21):
So the UK wants a trade deal with the US.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
Is it likely?

Speaker 3 (00:25):
No, in a word, and Rachel Reeves has pretty much
said that in her first interview. So it's day two
now of her in Washington, DC. She is the chancellor.
It is her job to get the economy moving again. Here.
Britain absolutely needs a trade deal with the United States,
but it's not going to happen quickly. And everyone's told
this before Brexit. Even Barack Obama came out and said,

(00:46):
if you leave the European Union, you can go to
the back of the queue. Everyone wants a trade deal
with the United States. So here we are, all these
years later that has come to pass. So Reeves is
in America basically trying to build relationships, get the kind
of low down on the Trump administration, puts faces to
names and vice versa, and just shake some hands. But

(01:07):
ultimately there is not going to be a trade deal
this weekend. I mean Trump is actually traveling to Europe
anyway for the pub's funeral on Saturday. So it's an
exercise in bridge building, but the trade deal will not
be happening quickly.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Hey did you see that London Marathon has come off Twitter?

Speaker 3 (01:23):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (01:23):
I did.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
This is very interesting and I'm not in any way surprise.
So this is Hugh Brascher, who is the head of
the London Marathon. His dad founded it in the early eighties,
all those years ago, and it is the best day
of the year in London. It is one day I've
run at ten times and it is the one day
that really fills you with hope for humanity. You meet
people who have physical disabilities, you have people who are

(01:49):
running for loved ones who are ill or have passed away.
You meet people who've lost children, and everyone has one
common goal to raise as much money as possible, to
get across the finishing line as quickly as possible, and
just to get the medal. So I'm not in any
way surprise. Brasier has taken the view his words that's
Twitter or X or call it what you want, has
descended into the gutter. So they stopped posting on X

(02:12):
and I say good luck to them. I mean, the
level of abuse on there is just vile.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Do you still use it now?

Speaker 3 (02:19):
I've come off it, and I think back to I've
reposted a couple of things recently, but I think back
to when I was badly sick in July twenty one
with COVID. I gave one interview on Irish radio urging
people to get the vaccine, and I got death threats.
I got abused every single day, and it still happens now,

(02:41):
and it got even worse. So the London Marathon that
year was in October, and when I couldn't walk, I
was in bed for seven weeks, and when I couldn't
walk properly, I said to myself, if I can get
over this and get fit and get training again, I'm
going to run marathons till I drop. And I booked
two in the space of a fortnight that October, I
went to Amsterdam, and then a couple of weeks later

(03:02):
I did London and I ran the two of them
in under seven hours combined. And the level of abuse
on Twitter was just off the scale. People accusing me
of having made it up and being a government stooge,
and who this guy's being paid by Big Pharma and
then the really kind of nasty personal abuse as well,
but then, hey, you know it's just people who've got

(03:25):
way too much time on their hands and hearts full
of hate.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
Yeah, totally just got to come off to a inda
thank you so much, have yourself a lovely weekend. We'll
talk to you next week. That's Indo Brady how UK correspondent.

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