{"id":81986,"date":"2025-04-30T07:56:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T06:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=81986"},"modified":"2025-04-30T07:57:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T06:57:56","slug":"special-relationship-i-dont-think-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/04\/30\/special-relationship-i-dont-think-so\/","title":{"rendered":"Special relationship? I don&#8217;t think so"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/apr\/29\/trump-makes-trade-deal-with-uk-second-order-priority-in-blow-to-ministers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guardian reports<\/a> this morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Donald Trump has made a trade deal with the UK a second-order priority, sources have told the Guardian, hampering British attempts to meet their mid-May deadline.<\/p>\n<p>US officials have decided to split their negotiations with more than a dozen other countries into three phases, with the UK being placed in either phase two or three, according to people who have been briefed on the talks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All of Rachel Reeves' efforts in dashing to Washington did, then, go to waste.<\/p>\n<p>So, too, did that invitation to a tyrant from the King.<\/p>\n<p>Come to that, Starmer has been hung out to dry, after all his talk of the 'special relationship'.<\/p>\n<p>The States won't even give us a clear steer on where we are in the queue for a trade deal, except that we are a long way from the front.<\/p>\n<p>Special relationship? Who is kidding who?<\/p>\n<p>It's time Starmer and Reeves cut the crap and talked about the reality of our relationship with the US, which is toxic. Then we might just begin to have a foreign policy that makes sense on a great many issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As The Guardian reports this morning: Donald Trump has made a trade deal with the UK a second-order priority, sources have told the Guardian, hampering<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/04\/30\/special-relationship-i-dont-think-so\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[215,118,106,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-age-of-aggression","category-labour","category-politics","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81986"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81991,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81986\/revisions\/81991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}