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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Nicholas Cecil

Reeves faces crisis as Trump’s tariffs send cost of government borrowing soaring in blow to her Budget plans

Rachel Reeves faced a growing public finances crisis as Donald Trump’s tariffs sent the cost of UK government borrowing soaring.

British 30-year government bond yields surged to their highest since May 1998 on Wednesday, following a sharp rise in 30-year US Treasury yields driven by the US President hitting China with 104% tariffs.

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