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Sir Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner met the parents of Elsie Dot Stancombe, Alice da Silva Aguiar and Bebe King in Downing Street on Tuesday.

NEWS ANALYSIS: During the Brexit negotiations after the referendum, the notion that Britain could have a trade deal with the US or India while still having favourable access to the EU was sneered at as impossible. But in a single month Sir Keir Starmer has achieved it, explains The Independent’s…

Downing Street said it was right for the new US administration to look at the agreement, which was agreed under Donald Trump’s predecessor Joe Biden.

Donald Trump has made it clear that the US and UK are gearing up for a big trade deal, and he says it’s happening fast.

Friday’s papers have a largely, if not unanimously, warm response to the Prime Minister’s trip to the White House.

Faced with criticisms of the UK’s handling of free speech and trade, Starmer offered mild but indirect pushback.

The Prime Minister appeared to have already got the president onside on one of the hot-button issues, with an indication he will back the Chagos deal.

Sir Keir Starmer encouraged the president to open the letter in front of the world’s media in the Oval Office on Thursday.

The US president said he would be visiting the UK in the ‘near future’ as he met the Prime Minister in the Oval Office.