More on Trump's visit

 

"The £150bn harvest of American investment in AI and advanced technology pulls this country a large step deeper into the US regulatory sphere and comes close to killing off the Rejoiner dream once and for all.

"We are seeing the long-tail consequences of the myopic way that Brussels handled Brexit. Did it never enter the heads of the EU political class that it might have been wiser to drop the punitive pedantry and try harder to keep the UK fully onside?

"Project 2025, the strategic blueprint for the Trump 2.0 presidency, stated explicitly that the US has a national interest in ensuring that post-Brexit Britain does not “slip back into the orbit of the EU”."

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard