U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson asked Trump to lift Scotch whisky tariffs
, have written that the phone discussion included lifting the tariffs on British goods issued a month ago, singling out single malt Scotch whisky in particular and discouraging potential future tariffs on car parts made in the European Union.New York Times
highlights a completely different narrative about the call issued from the White House, which doesn’t mention either cars or whisky but a pledge to negotiate “a robust bilateral free trade agreement once the United Kingdom leaves the European Union.” Mark Landler’s piece notes that while it’s not unheard of to have such different accounts of these kinds of leader-to-leader calls, the divergence in the official readouts about what was covered draws attention to Boris Johnson’s need to distance himself from the American president with a general election on the horizon. Trump is on the whole
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