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Can Starmer navigate Trump's tariff turmoil?
Published: 11 April 2025 at 09:28 Europe/London
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Senior Labour MP Liam Bryne, who chairs the Commons business and trade committee, joins host Alain Tolhurst to discuss how Keir Starmer navigates the post-tariff world, and whether the market turmoil could be an opportunity for Britain.
Later in the episode a panel of experts discuss the small matter of what on earth is happening to the global economy - and what that will mean for the UK - after Donald Trump’s sudden volte face on Wednesday, abandoning almost all of the tariffs he had meted out on so-called ‘Liberation Day’ a week before, but leaving 10% levies on British goods and 25% on steel and the automotive sector.
Jill Rutter, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Government and a former senior civil servant, Roaul Ruparel, a former adviser to Theresa May on Europe and a special adviser in the Brexit department, Allie Rennison, associate director at SEC Newgate and a former policy adviser to the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, and Clive Jones, Liberal Democrat MP and his party’s spokesperson on trade, try to make sense of what just happened, and explain what might happen next.
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Presented by Alain Tolhurst, produced by Nick Hilton and edited by Ewan Cameron for Podot