UK has no plans to strike US trade deal during Rishi Sunak visit to Washington

Rishi Sunak is set to ignore calls to secure a UK-US trade deal when he visits Washington next week for a bilateral meeting with President Joe Biden.

Talks to strike a post-Brexit trade deal were derailed by the Covid-19 pandemic and issues such as whether to allow some US agricultural products into the UK market.

Some members of the US Congress had hoped that the negotiations could be revived after Britain and the EU struck a deal over