A senior economic adviser to Donald Trump has urged Sir Keir Starmer to pursue closer ties with the US and not the “socialist” European Union if it is interested in a trade deal. The president-elect has indicated the US could introduce blanket tariffs of up to 20 per cent on imported goods and up to 60 per cent for imports from China.

A senior economic adviser to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has said Britain should align itself with the United States on trade rather than pursue closer ties with the European Union.

With Brit-loving Donald Trump soon to take the keys to the White House, experts are torn on what that means for the British economy - but one believes the EU could make life difficult for UK negotiators trying to strike a deal with the next President.

UK turning away from EU ‘socialism’ would spur Trump on trade deal, adviser says - Stephen Moore, who is advising the president-elect, said the UK ‘has to choose’ between the European Union and US economic models.

Britain has been told to move closer to the US to negotiate a trade deal instead of aligning itself with the "socialist model" of the EU, one of Trump’s top economic advisers has claimed. Resuscitating his previous administration’s trade negotiations with the UK,

EXCLUSIVE: Pieter Cleppe believes the EU is considering to "hit the US first" in a move he said would be "misguided".