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Business Casts Doubt on U.K.-U.S. Post-Brexit Trade Deal

The U.S. president says it can be done "very, very quickly." But economists say, not so fast.

U.K.’s Theresa May and the Brexit Process Thus Far

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The transatlantic trade deal U.S. President Donald Trump is offering U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May will ultimately prove easy to promise and hard to deliver.

That’s the warning of business leaders and trade analysts after Trump told May last week that the post-Brexit accord she hankers after can be lined up "very, very quickly."