Donald Trump has threatened to impose new tariffs on Britain if it does not disapply the Digital Services Tax on US companies. Trump told the Telegraph:
“I don’t like it when they target American companies, because basically, you’re talking about our great American companies, whether we like those companies that don’t like them, they’re American companies and the top companies in the world… We’ve been looking at it, and we can meet that very easily by just putting a big tariff on the UK. So they better be careful. If they don’t drop the tax, we’ll probably put a big tariff on the UK.”
The DST was imposed as a “temporary” tax on social media, online marketplace, and search engine revenues back in 2020. It is set to have raked in £944 million this year…
Trump also said Starmer could only recover if he scaled up drilling in the North Sea and dealt with immigration: “If he opened the North Sea and if his immigration policies became strong, which right now they’re not, he can recover, but if he doesn’t, I don’t think he has a chance.” No chance, he’s too busy arguing with the entire Civil Service…
The US administration is currently reviewing a raft of measures to punish NATO allies who didn’t take substantive part in the Iran war, including suspending Spain from the alliance and supporting Argentine efforts to take the Falkland Islands from Britain. Get HMS Dragon out there…
The King’s visit begins on Monday. Trump said of that: “I look forward to having King Charles come. He’s a friend of mine. We’ve spoken and we’re going to have a great time.” Important work for Charles to do…
Red Wall Labour backbencher Jonathan Brash told GB News that Starmer should resign:
“I’m completely fed up about it, and I think it’s got to the point now where I genuinely think that, as far as the Prime Minister is concerned, it’s not a case of if, it’s when.”