Keir Starmer orders UK economic reset amid Donald Trump’s tariff mayhem
05-04-2025 20:21 via theguardian.com

Keir Starmer orders UK economic reset amid Donald Trump’s tariff mayhem

PM ready to ditch ‘old assumptions’ and is debating possible changes to fiscal rules to boost growthKeir Starmer is preparing to rethink key elements of the government’s economic policy in an emergency response to Donald Trump’s tariff blitz, amid growing concern in Downing Street that the US president’s trade war could do lasting damage to the UK.The prime minister believes, say allies, that “old assumptions should be discarded” in the UK’s respon
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