Labour Gives up on Reducing 10% Tariff Rate <\/p>\n
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As Guido pointed out<\/a> back on Tuesday, Labour has been making far from hopeful noises about reducing the 10% base tariff rate. Reeves said in the Commons that her negotiations had a \u201cparticular focus\u201d on the additional rates only\u2026<\/p>\n Now the government is briefing<\/a> that ministers are \u201cincreasingly pessimistic about securing an outright exemption\u201d from the tariffs but that \u201cthings change by the day.\u201d Pitch-rolling ahead of any economic deal with the US\u2026<\/p>\n Starmer, who hasn\u2019t spoken to Trump since tariffs came in despite for some reason claiming Downing Street\u2019s negotiating prowess secured a better tariff rate, said yesterday: \u201cI don\u2019t think having a strong relationship with the US has given us no advantage whatsoever.\u201d The public doesn\u2019t buy<\/a> the Trump-whisperer spin \u2013 But that Oval Office meeting went so well\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Labour Gives up on Reducing 10% Tariff Rate mdi-fullscreen As Guido pointed out back on Tuesday, Labour has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[51,1700,479,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-15941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-tariffs","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114329553693405534","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15941","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=15941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}