Retaliation or restraint: how should Keir Starmer react to US tariffs?

Tit-for-tat levies on American goods may appeal to voters but would risk adding to UK’s economic headwinds

Government will step in to support key industries amid tariff turmoil, says Starmer

Carmakers will be given more flexibility over targets on transitioning to electric vehicles

Kevin Hassett claims tariffs will not have a big effect on US consumers and there will be no ‘political coercion’ over interest rates

Trump’s baseline 10% tariff on all imports from many countries has begun, with higher levies on 57 trading partners to start next week

The key questions answered after the US president shook up the global economy with what he called liberation day

There is already arguably too little flexibility in the chancellor’s budget plan. Trump’s tariffs chaos makes a rethink inevitable

No 10 has been criticised for ‘sucking up’ to Donald Trump, but believes its defensive strategy has been vindicated

Union says the government should intervene directly and force the council to settle the dispute

Small businesses that import goods brace for steep price increases that they have to pass on to their customers

Economists say levies of between 10% and 50% have dramatically added to the risk of a worldwide downturn

PM says measures mark ‘the beginning of a new era’ for trade and the global economy

Transport secretary Heidi Alexander grants consent to London’s fourth-biggest airport to allow potential 32m passengers a year

Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese says ‘no one has got a better deal’ but adds ‘that doesn’t mean it’s a good thing’

Chancellor says autumn budget enabled £25bn of extra investment into NHS and shorter waiting lists

President promised liberation yet may have plunged the US into recession and the world into an economic scramble