[mewzilla]

What Boris actually said, and please note my use of quotes, is that a trade deal “may take some time”.

[Cronos]

Johnson later said the US would like to do a deal within a year, but while he would “love” to achieve that, “to do it all within a year is going to be tight”.

Johnson confirmed he had reiterated his opposition to the NHS being opened up to US firms as part of any trade deal – and to the UK lowering animal welfare standards to US levels to get a deal.

En route to the G7 summit, Johnson pointed to the complexity of a potential deal when he gave a shopping list of products, from cauliflowers to shower trays to insurance, on which he said the UK would be pressing for the US to lower trade barriers.

he said that the US would have to lift “very considerable barriers” to UK products ranging from railway carriages to pork pies and cauliflowers being sold in US markets