Starmer Indicates Prospect of Fresh UK-Canada Trade Talks

The UK will seek to restart trade negotiations with Canada, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on his way to meet his counterpart, Mark Carney as he strives to strengthen commercial ties around the world to better insulate Britain’s economy from the fallout of US President Donald Trump’s tariff war.

“The world is changing on trade and the economy,” Starmer told reporters on Saturday on the way to the Group of Seven meeting in Canada. “That means we need to do more securing our base at home and turbo-charging what we are doing on the cost of living and at the same time reducing trade barriers with other countries.” The premier added he’d “been expressing that in my discussions with Mark Carney and he is in the same position.”