Sir Keir Starmer has said he will meet Donald Trump for “one-on-one” talks at a major global summit in a push to get the US-UK trade deal over the finish line. The Prime Minister said he expected the economic pact to be completed “very soon” ahead of a meeting with the US President at the G7 conference in Canada.

The UK-US trade deal unveiled with much fanfare in April should have exempted Britain from steel tariffs altogether – but there was one problem, it had yet to be implemented. And it still has not. Trump’s signature means the deal can now go through parliaments on either side of the Atlantic, but that process will still take days.