The biggest global trade war since the 1930s exploded this week — and as a weary Downing Street was forced to concede, no one is immune from its fallout. Donald Trump’s so-called “Liberation Day” tariffs designed to usher in a golden era of US manufacturing and economic growth were greeted with undisguised glee by the hardcore Maga ultras.
One particularly overexcited super-Trumpite, former chief strategist Steve Bannon, even went as far as to suggest that April 2 should become a new US national holiday “to honour the jobs, skills and trade that returned to America and her workers”.
