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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
David Maddox

Trump’s tariffs guru claim that UK is ‘compliant servant of communist China’ branded ‘crazy’

The man who persuaded Donald Trump to unleash the hugely damaging global tariffs plan which put the US and western allies on the verge of an economic meltdown has launched an extraordinary attack on Sir Keir Starmer’s government.

Peter Navarro described Britain as a “compliant servant of communist China” and warned it is in danger of having its “blood sucked” dry by Beijing in an interview with a UK national newspaper.

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