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I think there are going to be a number of bargains that the U.K. might need to put on the table,
Labour MP and Business and Trade Committee Chair Liam Byrne said Something Trump wants is for the U.K. and European countries to increase their purchases of U.S. energy, which could be [used as] a bargaining chip,
agreed Maxime Darmet, a senior economist at Allianz Trade Better to buy from the States than Qatar,
they said, echoing Kwarteng We should be doing everything we can to reduce our reliance on gas,
said Liam Hardy, head of research at the Green Alliance think tank That’s an area where there’s a U.K. need, and a U.S. desire and U.S. supply … which could be part of that bridge-building.”
Matthew Oresman, partner at the international law firm Pillsbury, said They were very ideological. We were very keen to decarbonize at the time. The U.S. had no truck with that at all. Their priorities were divergent, even if we got on well with his personal interlocutors.”
Speaking of his dealings with the Trump administration during his first term, Kwarteng said If we must import gas, doing this by pipeline from Norway leads to much lower emissions than shipping it from the United States.”
The one thing they can do quickly is buy our oil and gas,
Trump said, when asked how the bloc could avoid threatened tariffs We are going to have to get gas from somewhere if we are producing less in the North Sea,
former Energy Secretary and U.K. Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng told POLITICO, referring to the fast-depleting reserves off the U.K. coast Instead of committing to more LNG imports, risking increasing potential emission impact, the U.K. should continue reducing gas demand by scaling up renewable energy and deploying heat pumps,
The UK government is in a position to deftly steer the ship of state between the twin dangers of the US and EU. What Starmer needs to do is ensure that any EU reset does not compromise his independent trade policy and regulatory autonomy.”
Economist Shanker Singham, chairman of the Growth Commission, said I don’t think the UK has had much attention so far,
To avoid US tariffs and to get a deal we will have to play by their rules to a large extent. That will mean de-China-ing our supply chains.”
Because of Northern Ireland we will not completely escape being affected by US tariffs on the EU.”
The prime minister is walking a tightrope here but there are reasons for optimism, even if there is a very narrow landing strip. I think the prime minister can get a better deal with the EU, there seems to be an appetite for that, and at the same time get one with Trump and the US.”
We can’t be commentators when it comes to matters of peace on our continent,
We have a fair and balanced trading relationship which benefits both sides of the Atlantic,
Both of these relations are very important to us. We are not choosing between them - but that's historically been the position of the UK for many, many decades,
We mustn’t let Donald Trump bully the UK or our close ally Canada, who we share a head of state with. Trump’s tariffs on our Commonwealth partner are a shocking way to treat a country that stood alongside both the US and the UK during the Second World War.”
We need to work with our allies in the Commonwealth and Europe to stand strong against Trump and remind him that we are America’s longest standing friends. So the Prime Minister should invite Commonwealth leaders to London as soon as he returns from Brussels, to discuss a joint response to the global trade war Trump is unleashing.”
