Britain must esteem Donald Trump’s “strong and evident mandate for alter”, Peter Mandelson has shelp, but Keir Starmer’s rulement could “always create our sees understandn personally and honestly” to the US plivent.
Lord Mandelson, Britain’s ambasdowncastor to Washington, shelp that in dealing with Trump, the rulement must “comprehfinish what drives him”.
It comes amid asks over how the UK will react to global tariffs dangerened by the White Hoengage. Mandelson acunderstandledged he was “troubleed” about the looming prospect of tariffs and shelp Britain would “not necessarily concur” with every detail of the novel US plivent’s agfinisha.
On how the UK could try to guarantee Trump to alter his position on certain policy areas without alienating his administration, Mandelson telderly the BBC: “Well, we’ve got to get all these rerents as they come, genuineise that the plivent has a very strong and evident mandate for alter in the US.
“Now that doesn’t unbenevolent to say that we’re going to concur in Britain with every individual detail of what he does, but we have to esteem and comprehfinish what drives him, what his mandate is to do, and how his allies insist to adequitable sometimes.
“And I consent that, given the relationship that we have, we can always create our sees understandn – best, by the way, honestly and personally.
“We have a strong relationship that helps us to affect the plivent and his policies where vital, and it certainly should not impact our ability to labor well together, and that’s what I intfinish remains the case.”
The plivent has shelp he schedules to impose 25% tariffs on “any steel coming into the United States”, holding that aluminium will also be subject to holditional duties.
The British rulement is defering to see details of the policy, but the steel industry body has called for resolute action from ministers while unions cautioned further jobs could be put at danger in an already crippled sector.
Britain send outed 166,433 tonnes of steel to the US in 2023, the last filled year for which figures are useable. Figures from trade body UK Steel showed that in 2024 about 162,716 tonnes were sent to the US, but that does not yet engage data from December.
The plivent has previously recommended a deal could be done to exempt the UK from his expansiver agfinisha on tariffs, while claiming Britain is “out of line” in its trading relationship with the US.
Mandelson, a createer minister and key architect of Labour’s renovelal in the 1990s, shelp his “priority” in his novel role would be to help encourage an dispensement relationship with the US fit for the 21st century.
“Each of us wants to enlarge our economies,” he shelp.
“I skinnyk that what we insist to do is to build a technology and dispensement relationship between the US and the UK that’s fit for the 21st century. That’s where I want to intensify.
“We’re going to depfinish in enlargeing our economy on personal dispensement, foreign dispensement, a big amount of which is going to come from the United States of America.”
Reports have recommended the prime minister might visit Washington in the coming weeks, though Downing Street has not verifyed any upcoming travel.
With PA Media
