Skip to main content
Starmer set for Trump tariff snub
Prime Minister Keir Starmer during a joint press conference with US President Donald Trump in the East Room at the White House in Washington DC after their meeting in the Oval Office, February 27, 2025

SIR KEIR STARMER’S prostration before Donald Trump looks set to receive a humiliating rebuff as the US president announces tariffs on the British economy.

The Prime Minister has been almost alone among world leaders in refusing to criticise the erratic Mr Trump in the hope that Britain would be spared from his economic warfare.

Yet Sir Keir conceded that it was likely that Britian will be hit by the tariffs due to be unveiled by Mr Trump today, which could amount to a tax of 25 per cent of value on all goods entering the US. 

The 95th Anniversary Appeal
Support the Morning Star
You have reached the free limit.
Subscribe to continue reading.
More from this author
BACK TO THE DARK AGES: A child mill worker in the US, 1908
Eyes Left / 30 April 2025
30 April 2025

Incredibly, US Republican states are systematically dismantling child labour protections, with children transformed back into the cheap, disposable workers of the Dickens era, reports ANDREW MURRAY

US President Donald Trump gestures to the crowd as he depart
Eyes Left / 16 April 2025
16 April 2025
ANDREW MURRAY casts an eye over past upheavals and asks whether the left can find a fire escape before the world goes up in flames
Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds outlines the draft legi
Britain / 12 April 2025
12 April 2025
But Business Secretary downplays prospect of full nationalisation and declines to extend emergency assistance to Port Talbot or Grangemouth
A Reform UK activist holds up a banner as party leader Nigel
Britain / 10 April 2025
10 April 2025
Similar stories
President Donald Trump speaks during an event to announce ne
Britain / 3 April 2025
3 April 2025
Campaigners urge government to stop surrendering our rights and protections to appease the US President
US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Keir Starmer ho
Britain / 2 April 2025
2 April 2025