David Lammy says Trump has taken US economic policy back 100 years

The UK’s foreign minister David Lammy has said the US president Donald Trump’s recent announcement of tariffs against the country’s trade partners takes US policy back to ‘something that we’ve not seen for nearly a century’. Lammy said ‘all options’ were on the table for the UK in responding to the White House’s decision, but said the UK was engaged in trade talk to find a way forward

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David Lammy says Trump has taken US economic policy back 100 years with ‘return to protectionism’ – UK politics live