The former British prime minister, whose weeks-old administration collapsed in the turmoil of 2022, also served as commerce secretary from 2019 to 2021.
Speaking on Monday, she compared Biden’s attitude toward a deal with his predecessor Donald Trump, whom she supports in November’s U.S. presidential election. “I know President Trump wanted to make a trade deal,” Truss said. “The problem lies in Britain, so we need to solve that problem too.”
Negotiations on a US-UK trade deal began under Trump in May 2020, but no discussions have taken place since October 2020. US agricultural practices, such as chlorine-washed chicken and beef injected with hormones, have long been controversial in the UK and have proven to be a barrier. indicate.
Truss said the British government’s “apparatchiks” “did not want to do a trade deal” with Trump at the time, and claimed a deal “would have happened… without this resistance in Whitehall.”
But the former British prime minister was more optimistic about a trade deal in a second Trump term, saying: “I think we’re more likely to see a trade deal happen.”
The Biden administration last December abandoned separate plans for a more limited “core” trade deal, after Senate opposition and disagreements over the deal’s scope.
The former Prime Minister is in the United States to promote her book Ten Years to Save the West.
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