Trump tariffs live: Starmer warns ‘world as we know it has gone’ as Jaguar

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit Washington and discuss US tariffs imposed by Donald Trump among other issues, the Israeli leader’s office said on Saturday.

Netanyahu’s office said in a statement the prime minister, who is visiting Hungary, would depart for Washington on Sunday.

Four Israeli officials and a White House official said previously that Netanyahu was due to meet with Mr Trump tomorrow.

The impromptu in-person visit could be the first effort by a foreign leader to negotiate a deal with Mr Trump to remove tariffs.

But if the UK’s 10 per cent import tariffs to the American market compared to the EU’s 20 per cent, is the best economic justification for Brexit that can be made, then supporters of leaving the EU are clutching at straws.

The first and most obvious point is that Brexit has not spared the UK from having tariffs imposed on it by the one world leader who was the biggest cheerleader outside Britain for the UK leaving the EU.

Prime minister Keir Starmer said he was ready to step in to help “shelter” the country’s businesses from the fallout from Donald Trump’s new tariff policies, mooting state intervention for the worst-affected industries.

“We stand ready to use industrial policy to help shelter British business from the storm,” Sir Keir wrote in the Telegraph newspaper.

“Some people may feel uncomfortable about this – the idea the state should intervene directly to shape the market has often been derided.

“But we simply cannot cling on to old sentiments when the world is turning this fast.

While Sir Keir said the government’s priority remains to try and secure a trade deal with the US which could include tariff exemptions, he said he will do “everything necessary” to protect the national interest.

Britain was spared the most punitive treatment in Mr Trump’s tariff announcement on Wednesday when it was hit with the lowest import duty rate of 10 per cent , but a global trade war will hurt its open economy.

Almost no countries were spared from president Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs; even small, uninhabited islands in the Indian Ocean were included in the exhaustive list. But one country was notably missing: Russia.

One of the United States’ largest adversaries was omitted from the list of countries slapped with even the 10 percent baseline tariff – a move that raised some eyebrows given Trump’s previously friendly relationship with Russian president Vladimir Putin.

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