Chris Mason: According to Trump, the UK's new certainty is uncertainty.
The chancellor said that the world had changed, but hours later, it did so once more. This line, which Rachel Reeves used to defend the change in priorities and budget cuts she outlined in her Spring Statement, has been a common one at Westminster in recent days. The fact that Donald Trump is back in the White House and that they have no idea what will happen next is, at least in part, what people in government mean when they say that the world has changed. In a recent news conference, the president of the United States announced that Washington will impose a 25% import tax or tariff on all cars that the country purchases from overseas. This is just another example of how stagecraft and statecraft are the same thing. According to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, the US is the second-largest market for UK auto exports, after the EU. The UK government's approach, two and a half months into Trump's second term, has been to argue behind closed doors and sa...
