Enda Brady: UK correspondent on Prime Minister Keir Starmer working out a trade deal with the US

Keir Starmer and Donald Trump today signed off a UK-US trade deal at the G7 summit in Canada.

The two leaders then presented the deal, revealing that the UK aerospace sector will face no tariffs at all from the US, while the auto industry will have 10 percent tariffs, down from 25 percent.

UK correspondent Enda Brady says this will come as good news for the UK's auto industry - and jobs will be saved as a result.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Into Brady, UK correspondent.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
Hey, Inda, Hey, Heathery, good to speak to you again.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Okay, so we've signed the deal. We're all happy.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Trade deal done. Yes, So Keir Starmer on the face
of it, is very happy. Indeed, so he has got
this over the line. The UK becomes the first country
since Trump announced his tariff war and everybody else, the
UK is the first country to sign a deal get
it over the line. And what it means is ultimately
jobs being saved in UK car manufacturing. So we know

(00:29):
Trump bailed out with the G seven. He said he
had to go deal with big stuff. This is pretty
big for the UK. So what it means is that
there will only be a ten percent tariff on vehicles
from the UK heading to the United States when the
alternative was twenty five percent. So right now you would
say UK car manufacturing has certainly stolen a march on France,

(00:52):
Italy and Germany.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
Yeah, totally. Hey, I see the Princess of Wales tuned
up at the Gata Days parade.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Yeah, this is a lovely positive story for Kate actually,
so she hasn't been there for two years. William by
her side. She looked radiant. It was in Windsor, and
this is like centuries old tradition. There was an annual
procession down the main street, just for a short little distance,
but the public can get to see the royal family.
Kate was there, and obviously two years ago she was

(01:21):
in the beginnings of everything with the cancer treatment. It's
two years since she was last there, so she's been
through helen back. She looks fantastic. And one side note, yesterday,
while she was being cheered by the public, the photographer's
clocked Prince Andrew being driven very discreetly in through a
side door for the lunch afterwards. So he has no

(01:43):
public role anymore, but there was a free lunch going
so Andrew was there of course.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
I mean he could surely afford a lunche at home.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
He wants to be part of the pump and the pageantry. Look,
you're dealing with a guy who has not put a
foot right since the Falklands War forty three years ago.
So like you know, he's utterly immovable to what the
public think about him. But it says a lot that
he's not able to walk down a main street in
his own country.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
How did you boil in the tube today?

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Absolutely so. We are in a heat wave here, would
you believe not by Australian or American standards? At twenty
six celsius today, it's going to hit thirty by Friday,
and we're in for at least ten days of sustained heat.
The tube, you know, I was on it yesterday and
would you believe it, there was a signal failure. It

(02:33):
was so hot it was unbearable. And then the tannoy
comes and says this train will be stopping here because
of a signal failure and you're like utterly marooned nine
stops from where you're meant to be going. So good
Old Uber rescued me. But at some stage you just
think how hard is it to put air cone on
tubes when it's twenty six celsius above ground? It was

(02:55):
absolutely sweltering.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
I mean this is happening every summer to you guys. Now,
time to get a pool, do you know what?

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah? They might have to talk to the bank manager
on that one.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
Haven't Yeah, I think you've got you know, you're not
living in the gentle climate now, Hey, Enda, thank you
so much mate, look after yourself. Ender Brady, UK correspondent.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
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