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Business Secretary Peter Kyle said Donald Trump’s visit to the UK has secured an additional $250 billion in commercial activity on top of the existing trade deal. He highlighted a new tech partnership, creating 1,000 jobs in Belfast and hundreds more in Manchester and Edinburgh. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00This visit from Donald Trump gave us the opportunity to start working about a new additional set of investments in addition to the trade deal.
00:09So what we've seen is 250 billion pounds worth, sorry, dollars worth of additional commercial activity between our two countries
00:17in addition to that that was delivered by the trade deal that we already negotiated.
00:22And this is just a start.
00:23The tech partnership that we've announced here has given opportunities for tech companies to invest in the UK,
00:29for British companies to benefit from that investment and also export into the US market.
00:34And that tech partnership is going to build over time.
00:37It's also not just based in London.
00:39We've used all of the power and agency we have as a government to make sure that people right across the United Kingdom benefit from it.
00:46A thousand jobs in Belfast, hundreds of jobs in Manchester and Edinburgh just as the start.
00:51Tens of billions of pounds being invested outside of London and billions in the northeast of England, for example.
00:56So we're making sure that the next wave of industrial change that is coming is going to benefit people right across Britain,
01:03unlike those previous waves where some communities were left behind.
01:06That won't happen with this government.
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