Chris Mason: Jitters, uncertainty and hope as UK awaits Trump tariff decision

I detect a reasonable sprinkle of the jitters in government as the world waits for US President Donald Trump’s tariffs announcement later.
It is the single most globally consequential day so far of the president’s second term.
Foreign Secretary David Lammy said the UK must “prepare for the worst” and there is every expectation in Whitehall that the president’s moment at around 21:00 UK time, in the Rose Garden of the White House, will be noisy, theatrical and provocative.
But there is also a hope that what we hear later can amount to a “ceiling”, as it was put to me, from which the USs can be negotiated down.
Talks are ongoing, at quite an intensity by all accounts, between London and Washington on a narrow trade deal, talked up enthusiastically by Donald Trump when the prime minister met him at the White House in February.

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