When is a trade deal not a trade deal?
Do you remember where you were on TD Day, 2025? Do you remember what you were doing when you heard the news that a “truly historic” treaty had been signed between the UK and US? Trade Deal Day, 8 May 2025, was – for this government – a very big deal indeed.
Keir Starmer will be able to tell you exactly where he was; hunched over an Apprentice-style speakerphone in a meeting room at Jaguar Land Rover, while his emissary Lord Mandelson purred in the Oval Office, standing behind Donald Trump who had, hours earlier, demanded that the two leaders announce........





















Toi Staff
Penny S. Tee
Sabine Sterk
Gideon Levy
John Nosta
Mark Travers Ph.d
Gilles Touboul
Daniel Orenstein