In a world where Donald Trump’s tariffs and trade wars make everyone a loser, are there any winners from his latest deal, sealed by a handshake with the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, in a ballroom at one of the US president’s Scottish golf courses, of all places?
One very clear loser is Von der Leyen herself. If body language is anything to go by, she looked like she’d been badly bullied by the Big Orange Man – and, truthfully, so she had. In her own clipped remarks, she admitted that a reduction in tariffs to 15 per cent, while “not to be underestimated”, was “the best we could get”.
