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Donald Trump’s ambassador vows to do the quickest trade deal ever with Britain after Brexit
DONALD Trump will do the quickest trade deal ever with Britain after Brexit, his US ambassador has promised.
Woody Johnson said ahead of the US President's trip to the UK this week that it will be done "as expeditiously as any agreement we've ever had".
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And he said as much work was being done as was possible before we officially leave the EU - so everything's ready.
Speaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, he said: "We're going to have a great relationship with your country regardless of what happens.
"People are ready to go.
"It's on the President's desk, day one, the minute we leave.
"We're getting everything lined up so when the time comes, we're ready to go."
But he worried some Brits by saying that food standards would have to be accepted for a deal to be done with the US.
"There's going to have to be a deal where you give the British a choice," he said. "Agriculture is very important.
"If they like it, they can buy it. If they don't want it, they don't have to buy it."
Chlorinated chicken - which has proved controversial for the differing standards in the US - would have to be included in that, he said.
He insisted it was still safe to eat.
And he said that everything had to be on the table in trade deal talks - possibly even the NHS and our world-famous services.
"Your national health care service is the pride of the country... I would think the entire economy in a trade deal, all things traded, would be on the table."
Leadership candidate Matt Hancock said the NHS wouldn't be a part of any such talks.
He said: "My American friends, know this: The NHS is not for sale."
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US ambassador mocks decision to give Huawei role in 5G network
By Matt Dathan. Political Correspondent
AMERICA’s UK ambassador has ridiculed Theresa May’s decision to give China tech giant Huawei a role in building Britain’s new 5G network.
Speaking on the eve of Donald Trump’s state visit, Woody Johnson said it would be wrong to claim it is safe to allow Huawei to build antennae and other “non-core” infrastructure.
Officially the UK Government insists no decision has been taken over giving Huawei limited access to help build 5G infrastructure but Mrs May sacked her Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson after he leaked details of the decision from a private National Security Council meeting in April.
And The Sun revealed that UK security chiefs are considering whether the controversial company’s involvement in the multi-billion pound network could be restricted to allay security concerns.
But in a candid interview the US ambassador lashed out at this approach and warned that once Britain gave Huawei access to party of the system they would be “completely in”.
And Mr Johnson warned it would threaten the free flow of intelligence sharing between the US and the UK, as well as between the other members of the Five Eyes security alliance.
In a withering verdict on Mrs May’s willingness to give the Chinese firm a role in 5G, he told The Andrew Marr show: “There’s no such thing as the centre, the core or the outlying areas. It’s all one big thing.
“So you can’t have, as I understand it, you can’t have antennas all over and think that they’re not part of it.
“So you’ve got a big risk about both security and prosperity in building something with a country where the government can call up and say, ‘I want this information, I want it now,’ and the company has to respond.”
Mrs May faces a showdown with Mr Trump on Tuesday over the controversial decision.
Last week US National security adviser John Bolton said Washington’s concerns over the move will be raised when the pair meet for talks in No10 tomorrow.
Meanwhile, it's feared Donald Trump could use his address at the state banquet dinner to heap praise on Brexit.
Officials told the Mail on Sunday that they are braced for his speech - which will be in front of the Queen and Theresa May - to be controversial.
The Royal Family have tried repeatedly to stay above the Brexit debate.
Palace sources told the newspaper that the Queen would be "more than capable" of dealing with such controversy.
But Foreign Office insiders said they hadn't approached such a sensitive subject with the President.
One Whitehall insider said: "We've learnt that asking them to steer the President off a subject tends to have the opposite effect."
He's set for a posh state banquet dinner tomorrow night, following meeting the Queen in the afternoon.
Tuesday will see him have discussions with Theresa May and then dinner at the US ambassador's residence.
On Wednesday he will take part in D-Day celebrations in Portsmouth before leaving the UK.
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