{"id":125595,"date":"2025-05-23T15:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T15:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/125595\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T15:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T15:29:08","slug":"britain-is-enjoying-another-brexit-dividend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/125595\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain is enjoying another Brexit dividend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Has there ever been a day when Brexit seemed such a good idea? The story of Brexit began to change on \u2018Liberation Day\u2019 on 2 April when Donald Trump announced a 10 per cent tariff on imports from the UK and a 20 per cent tariff on those from the EU. No longer was it possible for anyone to argue there were no tangible benefits from leaving the EU: here was one of them staring us in the face. Following that, all proposed tariffs were suspended for 90 days to allow negotiations. Since then, though, the story has changed dramatically \u2013 and in Britain\u2019s favour. Thanks to the trade deal announced by Trump and Keir Starmer a fortnight ago, some tariffs on UK imports will be dropped altogether. Now comes the bombshell that Trump is proposing that EU imports be subject to a whacking 50 per cent tariff from early June.<\/p>\n<p>The President\u2019s threats may never materialise, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Has there ever been a day when Brexit seemed such a good idea? The story of Brexit began&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-125595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114557862900082791","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}