Peter Kyle

landed just before Christmas.

So you see a lot of steady progress.

That huge, gargantuan deal that was struck during President Trump's state visit to Britain in the autumn of last year has created $300 billion worth of commercial potential between our two nations.

So these are not insubstantial deals.

These are really consequential deals, and they're available for businesses to start using now.

Well, it's quite good that this talk has emerged over the Davos period.

I've been here at Davos for a couple of days.

I've met with many, many people from the U.S.

administration.

Some of them plan, some of them you bump into and you go to one side and have really free, frank conversations.

The key thing that's underpinning the special relationship between the UK and the US right now is we do have very strong personal relationships, which are forged through listening, learning from each other about the priorities our two nations and we have as two administrations.

Even though the difference is us being a center-left party in the U.K.

and the administration in the U.S.

being a Republican, conservative administration, if it were a Venn diagram, the bit that's in the middle there is really quite considerable.

And we have managed to really focus on where the mutual advantage is diplomatically, economically, in terms of security and defense.

So that special relationship has been reformed a lot around looking at where the high-growth sectors in the world are at the moment, quantum AI, fusion, space, climate technology, health technology, and particularly AI.

And we have come together around these areas.

These are areas the U.S.

leads on, but Britain has real pointed expertise and potential.

And us working together as a partnership is a partnership that adds up to more than the sum of its parts, and that is recognized by both sides.