It is a logical and necessary decision for the UK to attempt to negotiate a trade deal with the Trump administration rather than resisting, given the economic costs of the current tariff landscape.

“I think that's the right bet if you're Kirsty, who again is not particularly popular, but maybe this is a way for him to turn a new leaf in the UK. I sort of doubt it. I don't think he necessarily will be able to do that, but it's probably better than him doing nothing”

The Trump administration’s move away from free trade and international cooperation toward protectionist tariffs is destabilizing the global order and isolating the United States.

“If the United States is going to pull out of all these agreements, at first other countries tried to tried to appease Trump, right? They tried to work with him. But then when it came clear that there was no working with him, that he basically wants his own payoffs, but then he changes his mind, and ”