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DUP leader Gavin Robinson and (inset) US President Donald Trump

The Irish Republic is partly to blame in “provoking” the Trump administration into slapping sweeping tariffs on global trading partners, the DUP leader has said.

Gavin Robinson accused critics of the US President of irony and claimed “aggressive low tax regimes” in Dublin and elsewhere have damaged America’s domestic economy.