For Sir Keir Starmer, it was a "very wonderful day of history": 80 years ago, when the British people hung colorful flags to celebrate the victory of the Allied forces in defeating the Nazis, the moment of the American Goke cooperation.
The reality is pretty bland: the consistency between London and Washington, sealed in a surprise eleventh hour call and delivered in a chaotic environment, is primarily intended to limit the damage of Donald Trump’s global trade war.
The Prime Minister watched his beloved football club Arsenal on TV on Wednesday night when he was asked to stand out: the U.S. President Online.
British officials believe the long-standing deal has been crucified, but Trump is seeking two late concessions about agriculture. "We agree to one of his requests, not another," a British official said.
The official White House fact sheet boasted that the deal “will greatly increase the acquisition of American beef – almost all products produced by our great farmers.”
Wednesday's phone call capped weeks of increasingly intense talks, as British officials sailed to Washington to join British embassy staff for negotiations.
In addition to Lord Peter Mandelson (UK Ambassador to Washington, who stood outside the Oval Office during the announcement, Starmer's head of business relations Varun Chandra also played a key role in completing the deal.
Starmer's "calm and proportionate" reaction to Trump's trade provocative self-joining (including threats this week to impose tariffs on foreign films that will strike the UK's world-class production sector - is seen in London as keeping talks pace.
But in the end, British officials concluded that Trump, like Britain, needed a trade deal. "The key to the Trump administration is to show them the market they can reach a deal," said one Starmer Ally.
With the ink drying, it will now be reviewed whether the UK is rushing to trade with the United States, a clause that is good compared to other countries the U.S. president is negotiating.
The rush extends to Thursday itself: Trump announced his intention to put Britain in front of the queue as he called it a "comprehensive and comprehensive trade deal" created a battle for all, as the 10th attempted to rewrite Starmer's plan.
The Prime Minister was scheduled to mark VE Day all day long and was sent to the Jaguar Land Rover factory in the West Midlands, where he called the Oval Office on his landline phone to hear Trump announce the deal, which included a franchise for British automakers.
No. 10 insisted that the news was not blinded, but despite this, the error of Coventry at Coventry, 13 miles from Prime Minister Solihar’s press conference was accidentally.
Starmer extended his extension, ultimately successful Trump Charm Offensive, recalling 80 years ago the British people celebrated their victory in the UK and the U.S. forces.
"As Ve Day reminds us, Britain has no greater ally than the United States," the Prime Minister said.
Mandelson - Stand with Trump at the Oval Office - thrives with Churchillian: "For us, this is not the end. It is the end of the beginning."
Mandelson is now seeking to build a UK technology partnership, which he proposed at the White House on Thursday with U.S. Vice President JD Vance. "I'm there to serve you," said British officials.
Ultimately, Trump's "complete and comprehensive deal" is the same as the ambitious British Free Trade Agreement after the British left the EU in 2016, but it attracted some stimulus from the U.S. president's trade, devalued the impact on cars and drugs on steel and pharmaceuticals while scraping it on steel and aluminum.
Currently, Starmer will become the first world leader to reach a deal with Trump since the president announced large quantities of tariffs last month.
"If we can reach an agreement with India, Trump and the EU in the next three weeks, it will be a dream situation," a British minister told the Financial Times on Monday.
Starmer reached a trade agreement with India on Tuesday and will agree on a new UK EU "strategic partnership" at a summit in London on May 19, paving the way for deeper defence and trade cooperation.
While the Prime Minister struggles at home - with a stumbling situation in the domestic and amid a local election last week, polls struggled - he seems keen to embrace the international stage.
Challenging whether the deal will still put the UK-US trade relations in a worse state than before Trump took office, Starmer insists that it is the wrong question. He replied: "You should ask, is it better than yesterday?"