Has a free speech row derailed our US trade deal?
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🗓️ 1 April 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
It's 'Liberation Day' eve as Trump dangles his tariffs threat across the world again. How should Starmer respond to what could be a nail in the coffin to the UK economy? And how has one woman’s anti abortion protest now got tangled up in a free trade deal? We talk with a former Bank of England chief economist.
Later, is Kemi Badenoch right about Adolescence? Should policy be made off the back of TV drama? And if so, what is it?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.0 | This is a global player original podcast. Are you going to move in up with a universal |
| 0:13.9 | tariff for different individual tariff rates on a whole variety of different... |
| 0:17.9 | Well, you're going to see in two days, which is maybe tomorrow night or probably Wednesday, |
| 0:24.6 | you're going to see. And they're reciprocal. |
| 0:27.3 | So whatever they charge us, we charge them, but we're being nicer than they were. |
| 0:31.3 | That is Donald Trump looking ahead to Tariff Day, or as he's calling it, Liberation Day. And I'm sure a hallmark card will be coming |
| 0:40.0 | to you sometime soon to celebrate such a magnificent moment. But is he going to go through with it? |
| 0:46.1 | And what would lead to anyone getting a reprieve? No one seems to know right now. |
| 0:51.6 | Well, today we're wondering how Kirste Starmer is going to handle the whole |
| 0:55.0 | thing, because this question of a deal has now taken a turn for the surreal. Why is an anti-abortion |
| 1:01.3 | protester and the issue of free speech at the centre of this equation? Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:10.6 | The newsagents. |
| 1:12.4 | It's John. |
| 1:13.5 | It's Emily. |
| 1:14.2 | It's Lewis. |
| 1:14.7 | And you can see the calculation. |
| 1:16.5 | I'm going to go to the White House and I'm going to play really, really nicely with Donald Trump. |
| 1:21.3 | I'm going to give him an invitation from the King to come for a second state visit. |
| 1:25.7 | And we are going to escape these ghastly tariffs that could |
| 1:29.0 | have such a devastating effect on the economy. We're not going to say a word of criticism. |
| 1:34.0 | We're going to keep silent, even though we're having to bite our lip very, very hard. |
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