The Australian Prime Minister has said a UK-Australia trade deal could be done within a year.

Responding to Boris Johnson's indication that an equivalent post-Brexit agreement with the US could take more than a year, Scott Morrison told reporters: "I would like to think we can move quicker than that.

“You've just got to get round the table and work it through. I'm not going to create any arbitrary deadlines on this."

Speaking after the two leaders met at the G7 summit in Biarritz, he suggested a move to "lock in what we can lock in and get that moving and I think that will create momentum for the UK for

arrangements with Australia and others to be concluded quickly".

"But at the end of the day it's got to be in our interests. We are not going to sign up to something we don't think helps us and neither will they."

Pushed on whether it could be done in a year he said: "I would hope so."