
Mike's Minute: Free trade will survive these tariffs
Keir Starmer is fast becoming a new political hero.
For a bloke who stumbled into office not on his brilliance or a nationwide passion for the Labour Party, but more because the Tories had spent 14 years slowly messing the place up, he turns out to be quite the operator.
He is reforming public health because it's fat and useless. He is trimming welfare because there are too many layabouts.
He has handled Trump as well as anyone, and better than most, both on tariffs and the war.
Now he has rejected that hackneyed old sop of a patriotic "Buy British" campaign in response to America's moves…
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