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The government is hailing the increase in the national minimum and living wages as a “huge” boost to pay packets. But household bills are also rising for millions, and Donald Trump’s “liberation day” tariffs are due to take effect tomorrow.
Badenoch: ‘We should not engage in a trade war with the US’
Kemi Badenoch is taking questions from journalists, and she was asked why she has told her MPs not to criticise Donald Trump, and also what she would do in response to the impending tariffs.
The Tory leader replied that it’s “just false” to say that she has told her MPs not to criticise Trump.
On tariffs, she says: “We should not be engaging in a trade war or tit-for-tat retaliation – that makes everybody poorer.”
Her solution is a “UK-US trade deal ASAP”.
She says the Tory governments that were in power for the duration of Donald Trump’s first term in office from 2017 to 2021 were “well on the way” to achieving a trade deal – although that was obviously not achieved, and Trump himself had poured cold water on the idea.
She goes on to say that the Biden administration did not want to agree a trade deal with “any country”, but “now is the time for us to kickstart that and move at speed”.
It must deliver for all sectors in the economy, she adds
