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President Trump is ‘completely wrong’ to threaten to ban American exports of diesel if Europe doesn't agree to free up its own stockpiles, Treasury spokesperson for Reform UK Robert Jenrick says, adding that he has already written to US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, explaining the United Kingdom’s ‘extraordinary vulnerability’. Report by Gluszczykm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Well I've already written, in fact I did so long before it seems the British
00:04government engaged with the Trump administration to my opposite number
00:08Scott Besant the Treasury Secretary urging him not to impose this diesel
00:13export ban on the United Kingdom explaining our extraordinary
00:16vulnerability as a country because we have very little storage capacity we
00:23don't have the refineries that we once had and of course we're not drilling for
00:27new oil and gas fields in the North Sea we'll see whether the US listen to us
00:33he's completely wrong I've made that clear I've spoken to Scott Besant as far
00:38as I'm aware Andy Burnham did not raise that when he met Donald Trump and as far
00:44as I'm aware John Healy has not spoken to Scott Besant this government is asleep at
00:49the wheel

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