UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer set to admit Trump’s tariffs are popular: report

United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer is set to admit that he understands the rationale behind US President Donald Trump’s tariff push, according to a report.

The center-left Starmer will announce on Sunday that he understands the reason why the economic nationalist framework imposed by the Trump tariffs is popular with voters — while arguing that tariffs are still wrong, The Times reported.

“Trump has done something that we don’t agree with but there’s a reason why people are behind him on this,” a spokesperson for the Prime Minister said in a statement to the outlet.

“The world has changed, globalization is over and we are now in a new era. We’ve got to demonstrate that our approach, a more active Labour government, a more reformist government, can provide the answers for people in every part of this country,” the statement concluded.

In the address, Starmer will emphasize the supposed end to globalization and admit to Englanders that the accompanying policies of free trade and mass migration have failed millions of voters, the report stated.

Starmer has yet to speak with President Trump about the freshly imposed tariffs.

The Prime Minister did discuss the issue with France’s President Macron Saturday on a phone call, in which the two Western leaders agreed that a trade war is in nobody’s interests, “but nothing should be off the table,” the outlet reported.

On Wednesday, President Trump announced sweeping new tariffs on nearly every country in the world — including a 10% tariff on all goods imported from England.