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There are discussions too about whether it's possible to speed up the long waited-for Industrial Strategy – a plan to get investment into the UK pencilled in for June, but could it be brought forward?

“That will be a fair part of the discussions,” Aitken said.

The board vote did not include discussion and ignored pleas from public commenters who asked Metro to reconsider its plans to include upgraded bike lanes.

But later, in a discussion about her role in helping to pass the Welsh government's budget last month, she perhaps let slip the sort of numbers the Lib Dems were looking at.

Those on the UK side characterise the discussions as "more like a corporate conversation than a trade negotiation", putting that down to the personnel, outlook and biographies of plenty in the Trump administration.