The "world as we knew it" is over and the UK "stands ready" to use direct state intervention to shelter industries from the US tariff storm, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said yesterday. US President Donald Trump's imposition of sweeping t
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The “world as we knew it” is over and the UK “stands ready” to use direct state intervention to shelter industries from the US tariff storm, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said yesterday.
US President Donald Trump’s imposition of sweeping tariffs on Wednesday shows that “old assumptions can no longer be taken for granted,” Starmer said in a op-ed for the Sunday Telegraph newspaper.
“The world as we knew it has gone,” he wrote.
The new world will be governed less by established rules and “more by deals and alliances,” added the prime minister.
“It demands the best of British virtues -– cool heads, pragmatism and a clear understanding of our national interest,” he said.
The UK leader reiterated his government’s belief that “nobody wins from a trade war” and that the immediate strategy was “to keep calm and fight for the best deal.”
