00:00Well, we're a trading nation.
00:02Our economy depends on trading both goods and excellent
00:05services around the world.
00:07Much of that trade is between Britain and the United States.
00:11So we obviously don't want to see more trade barriers put
00:15in place.
00:16We'll argue for our interests.
00:18But as with everything else, I think
00:20it's best with the new president to see what's actually
00:24done, rather than just what's said on the campaign trail.
00:27I think you've also got to look at what people in the States
00:29have said about President Trump, too.
00:31His own running mate, now Vice President-elect J.D. Vance,
00:36mused in the past about whether Donald Trump was
00:39the next Richard Nixon or America's Hitler.
00:42He is capable of looking past these things.
00:45If he fell out with everybody who
00:47had said negative things about him,
00:49you wouldn't have J.D. Vance as Vice President.
00:51You actually wouldn't have Elon Musk as his biggest business
00:54backer, because he said a few things in the past, too.
00:57You can read these things out.
00:59But the truth is that the relationship
01:01between Britain and the United States
01:02is based on more than tweets.
01:05It is based on a deep and abiding security
01:09relationship, which is in our interests and in theirs.
01:12It's based on a really important commercial relationship,
01:15and more important than both of those,
01:18based on shared values that make us the best
01:22of friends in the world.
01:23That will endure, and that will continue
01:25over the next few years.
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