The White House is pushing Sir Keir Starmer to make concessions on food standards in order to revive a transatlantic tech partnership that drastically collapsed on Tuesday.

Jamieson Greer, the US trade envoy, wants Britain to accept hormone-treated chicken and beef, a term he was not able to achieve when the wider US-UK trade deal was first signed in May.

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    2 days ago

    Why are world leaders even entertaining this fuckin guy?

    It’s also not a great sign that my faith in spineless Starmer is so low that I’m actually glad I haven’t eaten chicken in weeks, and a little sceptical that I’ll be buying any until all this has stopped.