Keir Starmer has been warned he must “accelerate” cooperation with other leading economies in the wake of Donald Trump’s tariff wars and that it would be “naïve” to believe the damage is over.
The US president was forced to announce he would delay tariffs above his base rate of 10 per cent, which affects the UK, for 90 days, in the wake of days of market turmoil that sparked a fire sale of US government bonds.