After Trump tariffs, Sir Keir Starmer is to slow down and go faster

Prime Minister Sir Keir Star saw in his flat. Chancellor Rachel Reeves saw it in his study. Trade Secretary Jonathan Reynolds, along with employees and pizza, revealed from his office in Old Admiralty Arc on Wednesday at the Big Tarif of President Donald Trump, from where the British Navy was directed to protect and control trade on high seas.

The minister can now dream of having that kind of power, as the UK sees the growing horror on the movement between the US and China.

“Sometimes people never realize that they are living through a moment of history,” a cabinet minister notes, such as Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping Square fall to each other, and fall into the stock markets. Trump slapped 10% of tariffs on all countries – including UK – for imports in the US, and some countries including China, which responded with its own fresh tariffs.

So what’s happening in the Whitehall now, to try to limit the loss to Britain, perhaps by making a deal with the US, and taking the maximum advantage of any opportunity?

The PM is spending another dramatic weekend while working in his country’s pads, checkers. So far, other calls that can actually matter to American dialogues have not resumed yet.

Trump threatens a possible trade deal, which can free the UK from some costs from tariffs during the pair Chammi White House Press Conference in FebruarySince then, there has been a significant conversation by a team of about 20, which is not with the Business Secretary by Michael Alum, Treasury and Banking Experienced, and PM’s Business Advisor Varun Chandra.

Those negotiations included ideas about reducing rules on electric vehicles, potential changes in a tax on technical companies (“location to talk about it”, a minister says) and changes in online security rules (“not” not “not”, a government source says.

But as the US government on Wednesday prepared for its announcements, talks about a deal ground. Now, after the announcement, “the ball is in his court”, said that a government source is included, waiting to hear that, Trump’s new tariff in the world chaos, the White House can find time and energy to carry forward a deal with the UK.

“We are hoping to listen to them at any moment,” one of them is involved. The risk in visual turmoil is that any economic agreement can become a case: don’t call us, we will call you. When he joins us in the studio tomorrow, we will ask Treasury Minister Darren Jones.

If a deal is made, however, do not expect an all-singing all-dancing system. Instead, “This will be a basic agreement on principles-instead of a super detailed trade agreement”, a government source says, unlike these “quick and dirty”, walks for a long-running conversation with India (“We’re on our 15th chapter with them!”).

Uncertainty around the dialogue, and limited nature of getting a deal in any case, it means that someone is “not sitting here” is waiting for it – this is not the basket where all our eggs are “.

For weeks, the government told us that they are preparing for all kinds of landscapes. A secret cabinet committee was considering how the UK can respond if Trump’s tariff was physically physicized.

But now they are here, the real response is… not to answer, and to spend four weeks to ask businesses whether they want to respond to the government later. This is not just whitehall: at this stage, in the coming days, there is almost zero hungry between ministers to join the round of tariffs between the US, China and the European Union.

The figure of a whitehall working with the business states that “there is not a single voice in the business, big or small, saying that it is a wrong strategy”.

The ministers’ attitude to receive business on the board, such as Sir Keer, invited dozens of big wigs in the morning after Trump’s tariff announcement, when the government has increased the national insurance contribution, it is in part due to anger. “Really cool response,” a formula, “because we have found in headspace where the tariffs were going to be in – one of the businesses said that they were getting border, we are trying to convince the business to rely on the process.”

The government is not in any kind of crowd, and there is no enthusiasm to present its new tariff, and for now, at least, they are demanded to do so. According to a minister: “Most people have a large number of jobs in their constituencies on the line – even the cabinet may have some question marks, but it was not this week.”

And they joke that Lib Dames, who are calling for tariffs in vengeance, “Keep demanding a business war but I don’t think they will lead the nation”. Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, who does not even want additional tariffs, will also be in tomorrow’s show.

But the way the government is running slowly on killing back, they are cracking the head to crack fast with their current plans.

It is not all about Trump. I understand that the Chancellor is seeing whether any money declared in the review of the important expenditure of the government can be brought beyond June. If government departments are able to finalize their deals, can it be resolved and made public as soon as possible?

There are also discussions about whether it is possible to speed up a long-awaited industrial strategy to gain investment in Britain for-but can it be brought forward? A decision has not been taken, but the Prime Minister is again, his team has indicated, trying to use danger worldwide to push the government’s machine more. A government source says, “We have to run to this quickly.”

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You can feel, have I not heard it before? You will be right. Since the beginning of the year, both the Prime Minister and Chancellor have repeatedly said that the government has to go fast, hard work. So why in the opposition after years, the team of the stormer was not ready to go with all these changes when they came to the office? For a government that promised to be a radical, its plans have not always been upcoming.

You cannot imagine the kind of radicalism that we are looking out of the White House, but it is definitely a radical. To compete, the UK may also have to happen.

A government source commented that Trump suggested that the PM was “very happy” that Britain hit with tariffs – “artistic license”, a government formula commented. No British action can fully insulate our economy by disruption abroad. But the government matters its own action, and it can be a decisive moment.

While there is no shortage in the attempt to attack for Britain, the government’s hopes have already collapsed. First, the ministers believed that the UK could escape the tariff, then he said that he was ready in the case, then he was disappointed when he arrived.

As Sir Kir spends another weekend on the phone, and his officials wait for their phone ring, the government does not know what it will be able to say further.

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