Enda Brady: UK correspondent on Donald Trump's tariffs on auto imports potentially sending the UK into recession

Donald Trump's latest tariffs on auto imports could send the UK into a recession, according to experts.

The US President says putting a 25 percent tariff in place would boost manufacturing - but this comes with risks for global supply chains.

UK correspondent Enda Brady warns these tariffs could make the economy 'untenable' - and plunge the UK straight into a downturn.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's got it. Inde Brady, a UK correspondent who's with
us in the welcome.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Hey Ryan, good to speak to you again.

Speaker 1 (00:06):
And to you too. What's been the reaction to Rachel Raise,
you know, the lovely Labor Chancellor of the EXCHEQA and
some pretty fetcher like cats.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Yes, so she's gone after people on sickness and disability benefits.
That's all being reduced, loads of cuts and spending, and
she hasn't ruled out the fact that taxes may have
to rise. So look, I think it very much depends
on which side of the political offence people sit on.
A lot of people are criticizing her. A lot of
conservatives are saying that this is awful. She will say

(00:39):
in turn that she is dealing with the mess labor
inheritage July of last year. I think the fact remains
the UK economy is limping along. She has huge conundrums
that I'm struggling to see where the answer is going
to come from. Nine point two million people of working
age in this country are not in work. They're not
doing anything, they're not paying tax, they're not contributing to

(01:02):
the economy. Nine point two million people. Now we have
ten percent of the working age population who are on
sickness and disability benefits. So she has I don't know
what has gone wrong in Britain, but she seems to
be adamant that the decisions she's making today will bear
fruit five or six years down the line. Politically, I

(01:23):
wonder will she be chancellor in five or six months?

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Yeah, Well, to be feared to that, as you say,
rock and a hard place, really, isn't it when when
you're in here it's something like that? And just so
recently as well, now Trump's terrorists on cars. What will
this do to the UK? Could it actually wipe you? Growth?

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Well, growth is basically zero at the moment and has
been from months and months on end, and that is
the challenge for Reeves. She's saying that she wants to
stimulate growth and all these cuts and changes that she's
making now will bring growth eventually. Step forward. Donald Trump,
he has announced that next one, Wednesday's Liberation Day, and
the plan is that he will whack twenty five percent

(02:05):
tariffs on all manufactured cars coming into the United States.
So what that means for the UK is very very
bad news indeed, because there's about thirty billion dollars worth
of deals from the car manufacturing sector here that go
to the United States. The EU is the number one
market European Union. Britain's second biggest market for all of

(02:27):
the vehicles that transports is the US. Twenty twenty four,
the UK sold one hundred and one thousand units to America.
And if he puts that tariffin as of next Wednesday,
that it just will be untenable and that will send
Britain in a tail spin back into a recession.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Goodness, mate, doesn't the news just doesn't get better for
Rachel Race, does it? The man that's been banned from
an entire county for stealing.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
What Cabri's cream eggs. So, I don't know if you
have them in New Zealand, but they're a nice little treat.
They're the size of an actual egg that you would
crack open and make an omelet with kids. Loved them,
and they're getting more expensive like everything else in our shops.
This guy, he's twenty six years of age from the
Peterborough area. His name is Dion de Grout. He walked

(03:20):
into Tesco supermarket and he left without paying with three
hundred and twenty five Cabrey's Cream eggs. Now, one of
the shop assistants was observing what this guy was doing,
ran after him, and as luck would have it, a
police patrol car was going right past the street. She
flagged down the police patrol car. They got out, they

(03:41):
stopped this guy. They put cuffs on him and you
can see on the body cam footage the officer says,
what have we got here, and the bloke says, Cabrey's
cream eggs. So they sit him down. They count them out,
three hundred and twenty five cream eggs, about four hundred
and fifty dollars worth of chocolates, and this guy thought
this was all okay. So he has avoided a prison sentence.

(04:03):
The judge says he's going to have a suspended sentence.
He will do some community work, he will repay the money.
The goods are gone back obviously, but he now will
be banned from the entire county of Cambridgeshire for three
months in total. So there you go.

Speaker 1 (04:19):
It's a lot of eggs, a lot of eiggs. I'd
hate to think how many easts does it take you
to get furtherm in the Thank you for that into
Brady our UK correspondent.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
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