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Starmer wants to handle ‘elephant in room’ and say Trump is incorrect on tariffs, Harriet Harman says

By Editorial Board Published April 11, 2025 3 Min Read
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Starmer wants to handle ‘elephant in room’ and say Trump is incorrect on tariffs, Harriet Harman says

Sir Keir Starmer must reassure the general public extra over tariffs – and inform them Donald Trump is incorrect, Harriet Harman has mentioned.

The US president positioned 10% tariffs on all UK items exported to the US, and whereas different nations have been a lot worse hit, the FTSE 100 fell by about 1,000 after Mr Trump’s “liberation day” announcement final week.

It then kicked off its finest day in 5 years on Thursday after Mr Trump determined to defer the worst of his tariffs for 90 days. Monetary markets world wide reacted equally.

Baroness Harman mentioned there was no want for “gratuitous insults” however that the prime minister wanted to “own the narrative” as a result of there may be “a danger” if the chief of the nation isn’t saying what is definitely occurring.

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A minister underneath Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, Baroness Harman mentioned that when the US put metal tariffs on imported metal in 2002, Mr Blair “did say ‘this is unacceptable, this is wrong, it’s unjustified, it is breaching the World Trade Organisation rules'”.

“He was able to say ‘we do not believe this is how you should be within the world organisation and Bush has got it wrong’,” she added

“I think it feels as if there’s a kind of restricted vocabulary amongst ministers at the moment where they are speaking in code.”

The Labour peer mentioned she additionally thought Sir Keir needs to be “being more positive and giving reassurance”.

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Sir Keir Starmer and Donald Trump shake hands at a news conference at the White House on 27 February. Pic: AP

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Sir Keir Starmer and Donald Trump on the White Home in February. Pic: AP

She acknowledged there was “a lot of criticism” within the first six months of Labour’s tenure and the federal government “didn’t help the economy by rather talking it down”.

There’s a hazard of being “too pessimistic”, she mentioned, and Sir Keir must be “realistic”.

“But I think that giving people reassurances – we’re not going to panic, we’re not going to make mistakes by knee-jerk retaliation,” she mentioned.

“I think the story needs to be told to the country that this is a really difficult problem and Trump has caused it and he is wrong to do this, but we will be okay with this government.

“And I feel he is entitled to say that, and I feel folks will wish to hear that.”

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