Tag: Tariffs

The US-UK trade deal announced today is a clear win for Trump, says Sam Ashworth-Hayes, leaving the UK worse off than in March and opening up UK markets in exchange only for reducing recently imposed tariffs.

Keir Starmer has been accused of putting British workers last after it emerged that employers who hire Indian workers are to be given a major tax break under Labour's new trade deal.

There's method in Trump's tariff madness, says Ramesh Thakur. Uniting his America First, anti-Net Zero and anti-DEI policies is an imperative to untangle the US from strategic dependence on an ascendant China.

Rachel Reeves cannot blame Donald Trump's trade war for the downgrade in the UK's growth prospects, the IMF has said, as it warns that Britain's inflation rate will be higher than in the US.

Ed Miliband has promised to save Britain's economy from Trump's tariffs. But it wasn't Trump who closed Britain's coal-fired power stations, nor ended oil and gas exploration, nor banned fracking, says Ben Pile.

Keir Starmer is preparing to rush through changes that water-down electric vehicle targets as soon as next week as carmakers brace for Donald Trump's tariffs – but carmakers warn the changes don't go far enough.

Keir Starmer’s free trade deal with the US is at risk over free speech after the US State Department warned there would be "no free trade without free speech" – but Whitehall officials have dismissed it as a bluff.

The EU has long waged a trade war against the US through tariffs and regulations, says Robert Kogon. Trump is simply fighting back.

Downing Street has contradicted Rachel Reeves with an insistence that Donald Trump is not responsible for the UK economy's dire straits, despite the Chancellor earlier indicating the US President was to blame.

Donald Trump has said he will double steel and aluminium tariffs against Canada to 50% and threatened to impose levies on its car industry as the US President escalated his trade war.