The UK government needs to “rise to the moment”, Starmer said, adding that he would not “pretend” US President Donald Trump’s tariffs are “good news”.
Speaking this morning after Trump announced a 90-day pause in his sweeping global tariffs, while raising his tax rate on Chinese imports to 125 per cent, the Prime Minister insisted his “government is ambitious for Britain”.
The UK prime minister said he would not “pretend that tariffs are good news” and that the government was not “just going to sit back and hope” but would need to “rise to the moment”.
Starmer told reporters: “This government is ambitious for Britain … and I’m not going to stand here and pretend that tariffs are good news.”
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