Environment Secretary George Eustice has been grilled on the US-UK trade deal by Dan Walker, who questioned whether the UK has now been placed “at the back of the queue” as the US focusses on other trade deals. . The grilling came after Joe Biden downplayed the chances of US-UK trade deal during Boris Johnsons’ visit to the White House on Tuesday. Mr Johnson had hailed the possibility of a new agreement with Washington as one of the many benefits of Brexit.

       “Are Great Britain, are we at the back of the queue when it comes to this sort of thing?”

       “It's a choice of the United States that for the Biden administration trade deals just aren't a priority at the moment."

       Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office before the talks, Mr Biden said the pair would discuss trade "a little bit", adding: "We're going to have to work that through."

       A deal would encourage trade by making it cheaper - usually by reducing or eliminating taxes called tariffs.

       Democratic Congressman Rep Brendan Boyle has previously said: “We have no plan, meetings on any sort of perspective US-UK trade deal.

       “President Obama then five years ago famously said that any consideration of a bilateral trade deal would go to the back of the line or back of the queue, as you would say,

       “And that's no disrespect to the UK, it's just a reality of so many other competing priorities for us in Congress."