UK PM Starmer vows to protect domestic businesses

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has vowed to protect his country's businesses from the worst ravages of the United States' new import tariffs.

With the United Kingdom's exports to the US now subject to at least 10 percent baseline tariff, as declared by US President Donald Trump, Starmer said on Sunday that he will support his country's enterprises, while also working to secure a UK-US trade deal that could sweep most tariffs aside.

"We stand ready to use industrial policy to help shelter British business from the storm," he wrote in The Sunday Telegraph newspaper.