![]() He told the press conference that ‘the challenges that we face are much more economic in nature… the only way we are going to meet those challenges is to work together’ and that the agreement would support tens of thousands of small businesses in the UK by removing red tape’. Asked why there was not an agreement, Sunak claimed this was the best answer to the question of what the countries could do to work together to achieve the best for their citizens and that ‘the economic relationship between our two countries has never been stronger… the relationship is strong, it’s booming’. Instead the pair announced an ‘Atlantic Declaration’, with the two countries promising to work more closely on economic, technological, commercial and trade relations. Sunak claimed that ‘not for decades has the relationship between our two nations been so important’, and that the only thing that had changed was ‘the challenges that we face’.ĭespite all this love, actually there was no free trade agreement. ![]() Biden described the ‘depth and breadth of our relationship’, ‘our common values’ and said ‘there’s no issue of importance – none – that our nations are not leading together on’. When the pair eventually appeared before journalists, they spent most of their opening statements banging on about how much they had in common and how they agreed on everything. ![]() Rishi Sunak and Joe Biden’s White House press conference started late, presumably to make a point that the two had just found so much to talk about in their bilateral.
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