This is The Guardian.

This is the beginning of Liberation Day in America.

We're going to take back just some of the money that has been taken from us.

We clearly want to see reductions in barriers to trade. take back just some of the money that has been taken from us.

Well, we clearly want to see reductions in barriers to trade, not increases in barriers to trade. So obviously we're very disappointed at the US decision to introduce tariffs.

I'm Pippa Carrera. And I'm Kieran Stacey. You're listening to Politics Weekly Westminster for The Guardian.

It's another day, another week, another tricky week, in fact, for the government, Kieran. I feel like we're saying this all the time at the moment.

I mean, I guess that's life in power, isn't it? There's always challenges ahead. But this week, we've got Donald Trump's tariffs threatening to blow up everything

Rachel Reeves announced last week in her spring statement. Plus we've got the specter of

major bill rises hitting millions of households in the UK tomorrow. So lots for us to get stuck into

a lot of Johnny wait to start. I got a message on Friday from a Tory advisor who said,

what do you think of Hell Week then?

Oh, is that what's been called?

I don't know which week you mean.

I mean, you could have been referring to any one of a number of weeks.

But yes, the Tories are trying to call it Hell Week apparently.

And it's not even April Fool's Day yet.

Never mind, we'll do that tomorrow.

So on Wednesday, or Liberation Day, as Donald Trump prefers to call it,

25% tariffs are supposed to be introduced on cars, steel,

and as the Americans put it, aluminum.

I can never say that.

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