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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Nicholas Cecil

'Trade war is in nobody's interests,' says Keir Starmer just hours before Donald Trump slaps tariffs on UK

Sir Keir Starmer warned that a “trade war was in nobody’s interests” just hours before Donald Trump was due to unveil a wave of tariffs hitting the UK and other countries.

At Prime Minister’s Questions, he defended his stance of not threatening retaliatory tariffs, as other countries and the European Union are doing.

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