LONDON (Reuters) -Britain is in talks with around 20 U.S. states to secure individual trade deals as soon as next month, trade policy minister Penny Mordaunt told parliament on Thursday. In the absence of progress towards an overarching UK-U.S. trade agreement, British negotiators are seeking state level agreements, including a deal with Texas by October. “There’s been considerable progress on this and we are in discussions with around 20 U.S. states,” Mordaunt said. “We are going to do a state level agreement with Texas, we hope, by October of this year, and we will start signing these agreem…