Enda Brady: UK correspondent on the UK's response to Donald Trump's tariffs

The UK will likely be pushing hard for a better deal after President Donald Trump unveiled the new tariffs set to impact the region.

Trump announced new levies on goods coming into the US, including 10 percent on all UK imports and 20 percent on those from the European Union.

UK correspondent Enda Brady says the UK is among many countries that will be pushing back against the tariffs - with discussions set to take place over the coming days.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Right now in the Brady, a UK correspondent in the
good evening to you.

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

Speaker 1 (00:05):
Now the UK, you've escaped the worst of it. Canada
was a bit angry with you guys for not standing
up for them. But your strategy, Stamer's strategically seems to
have worked. It looks like you've escaped the worst of
Trump's tariffs, well.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
To a point. You know, everyone here bangs on about
the special relationship with the United States, Well hang on,
New Zealand have got the same deal as the UK.
So a is Guatemala, Brazil and Australia. Starmer has made
the main plank of his foreign policy making friends with
Donald Trump. The European Union. They don't care. They're going

(00:39):
to whack back exactly the same taxes and tariffs. You're
going to see a big trade warrant out between Europe
and the United States, Canada. You know, everyone will whack
back and bite back of what Trump has done. Starmer
seems to think that conciliation is the way forward. So
we saw a big show that envelope from the King
when he saw Trump recently. It's going to be fascinating,

(01:01):
but I think there will be perhaps a collective's outpouring
of relief from Number ten Downing Street that the UK
has not had a twenty percent tariff because the economists
here reckon twenty percent of a tariff would have a
permanent zero point three percent reduction in the UK GDP.
So there's still a lot to play for tariff's don't

(01:22):
kicking and kick in until Saturday. And I think now
in the next forty eight hours is just frantic diplomatic
efforts behind the scenes to try and get a trade
deal to negate that tariff even further.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
Prince Harry the case over the text payer funded security.
You know, he thinks he should have security on the
public tet in going to court next week.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Yes, so it'll be a two day hearing Tuesday Wednesday
next week. I'm hearing at the Court of Appeal. This
is his last roll of the dice now because it's
an appeal, I don't think he needs to be there,
so we may not see Harry. He doesn't need to
give evidence. I think it's legal argument and then there
will be a panel of three judges who will ultimately decide.
But look, there is no public sympathy here for Harry.

(02:07):
The overwhelming view when you speak to people is he
made his decision. It was his choice to remove himself
from his own family and go and live in luxury
in California. So why should the UK taxpayer be picking
up the tab for security when a multi millionaire comes
back here. So it'll be curious to see the interpretation
of the law. But I think most people here don't

(02:30):
really care what Harry does so long as we're not paying.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
For it, Especially when Megan's line of Honey and Jam
has just sold out on a new website. I would
have thought in.

Speaker 2 (02:40):
That amazing, I look forward to buying some hey.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
Just before we go. He through airport, so that after
the five have been warned about the power supply, or
they had been I should say, warned about the power supply.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
Yeah, in advance. So this is interesting. The boss of
the airport, Thomas Wolby is his name. His Danish, used
to be the boss of Copenhagen Airport. Now he's running
heat Throw. He was hauled before Parliament to explain everything
that went on the decision making processes, and it's very
interesting that the information that is key to the story
today actually came from someone else speaking to the panel.

(03:18):
So it's a group of politicians on the Transport Select
Committee and it was a guy from the Heathrow Airport
Operators Committee. So this is all the airlines. And he
pointed out that just two weeks before the fire at
the substation, there have been the theft of some copper
wiring and cabling from the substations around heat throw, and
that prompted the airport operators to throw airport directly, what

(03:42):
are you going to do if there's a problem with
one of these substations. And they didn't get a response,
so Woldby, the CEO, said that he made the right
decisions and it was safety first and it was all
he could do. But it's very interesting now. I think
what we're going to see play out is a legal
battle for compensation because the airlines are legally obliged to

(04:03):
compensate the passengers. And it's quite clear the airlines are
now going to say the heat throw you caused.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
This in the thank if they're in the Bradio UK Correspondent.
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