Trump’s Tariffs: are you feeling liberated?
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Pod Save the UK
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🗓️ 10 April 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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UPDATE: 10/04/25: President Trump has planned to pause extended tariffs on most countries for 90 days, while pushing ahead on plans to implement a 104% tariff on Chinese goods. A flat 10% tariff remains in place.
Trump’s tariffs continue to cause chaos in the stock markets and the threat of a recession looms. As Rachel Reeves put it in her Spring Statement - the world is changing before our eyes - but is it enough to see her back down on her precious fiscal rules? Co-host Zoë Grünewald joins Nish to make sense of it all.
Can ‘the most dangerous man in Britain’ shed light on this moment of global chaos? Author and education campaigner Melissa Benn, daughter of the late great politician Tony Benn, reflects on her father’s relevance today and the future of the left.
Plus, Melissa takes a look at what’s in Labour’s new education bill. Kemi Badenoch has labelled it “an act of vandalism” - but are the reforms as revolutionary as critics claim?
And a couple of monumental WTF’s for you this week - Israel has barred two Labour MPs, just as human rights lawyers deliver a landmark report to the Met Police’s War Crimes Team, making accusations of war crimes against 10 Britons, who served in the Israeli military in Gaza. It’s chilling stuff.
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| 0:32.1 | Welcome to Pod Save the UK. I'm Nish Kumar. And I'm Zoe Greenwald. Are you feeling |
| 0:37.1 | liberated, Nish? |
| 0:38.4 | I've never felt more liberated in my entire life, Zoe. Last week, I was at the crooked office |
| 0:45.0 | recording this show and I watched live as Donald Trump liberated everybody from the prison |
| 0:53.9 | of common sense and reasonable economic policy. |
| 0:58.6 | Yeah, it was an extraordinary, extraordinary thing to bear witness to, |
| 1:03.2 | whilst some of our friends in the Crooked Media Office just shook their heads at a speed |
| 1:08.5 | that suggested they might all be about to get whiplash. |
| 1:11.2 | Of course, on the show today, we're discussing the impact of Trump's wild tariffs and what it means for the UK. |
| 1:18.5 | And we'll be joined by the author and political commentator Melissa Ben, the daughter of the late, great Tony Ben, |
| 1:24.7 | to discuss what the government could learn from a socialist firebrand father. |
| 1:29.1 | Plus, what does she think about Labor's plans for education? |
| 1:32.5 | But first, to Trump. |
| 1:35.9 | If you look at Switzerland, 61% to 31%, Indonesia, Malaysia, Cambodia. |
| 1:42.1 | Oh, look at Cambodia, 97%. We're going to bring it down to 40. |
| 1:47.1 | And they made a fortune with the United States of America. United Kingdom, 10%. And we'll go 10%. So we'll do the same thing. |
| 1:55.9 | Yes, that was Donald Trump reading from a board in a manner that suggests he has never heard of several of the countries that he was reading the names out of, with all of the production values. |
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