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Trump’s tariffs end ‘world as we knew it’: UK’s Starmer

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says 'old assumptions can no longer be taken for granted' after the imposition of sweeping US tariffs on countries across the world [File: Ben Stansall/Pool via Reuters]

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says the introduction of sweeping global tariffs by the United States has created a “new world” governed by “deals and alliances” rather than rules.

Starmer made the remarks in an opinion piece published in The Sunday Telegraph newspaper as countries around the world braced for further fallout from US President Donald Trump’s new tariff regime, which sent markets plummeting at the end of last week.

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