
Conservative Party
General election manifesto, under Boris Johnson“We aim to have 80 per cent of UK trade covered by free trade agreements within the next three years, starting with the USA, Australia, New Zealand and Japan.”
The manifesto on which the party won the December 2019 election. Source: Conservative manifesto 2019 (PDF)
What happened
By the end of 2022 there was no UK–US trade agreement. On 20 September 2022 the Prime Minister, Liz Truss, said: “There aren’t currently any negotiations taking place with the US and I don’t have any expectation that those are going to start in the short to medium term.”
Sources: The Guardian