Britain did better than Europe in 'Liberation Day' tariffs because of Brexit, Labour told

Ministers were yesterday urged to convey the erstwhile authorities for 'getting Brexit done', aft Donald Trump levied tariffs connected UK goods astatine lone fractional the level imposed connected the EU.

Shadow concern caput Andrew Griffith said the President's determination to enactment the UK connected the minimum 10 per cent tariff was a 'vindication of those who were pilloried and abused for wanting our state to person the state to determine our ain commercialized policy'.

The EU was deed by a 20 per cent tariff, and Downing Street yesterday acknowledged the little complaint could prevention 'thousands of jobs'. 

A No 10 root said the 'lower levy... matters due to the fact that the quality betwixt 10 per cent and 20 per cent is thousands of jobs'. 

Mr Griffith said Labour ministers should 'have the decency to regret the 48 times they voted to enactment successful Europe and to convey america for getting Brexit done'.

Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds acknowledged it was 'good we tin acceptable our ain commercialized policy' aft leaving the EU but said it was 'time to effort and unite the state astir the aboriginal alternatively than ever harbour backmost to the past'. 

Sebastian Gorka, an adjunct to Mr Trump, admitted Britain's little complaint reflected the information the UK near the EU – a run Mr Trump backed successful 2016.

Mr Gorka told BBC's Newsnight: 'After Brexit, you've reaffirmed your independence, and I deliberation that is being proven... by the peculiar complaint that has been afforded to the UK.' 

And Tory person Kemi Badenoch said Brexit had 'left america successful a stronger presumption connected trade', adding: 'We present person an autarkic commercialized argumentation but this lone works if it is utilized decently by radical who cognize what they're doing.'

Former location caput Suella Braverman said: 'Never hide that erstwhile we fought to permission the protectionist EU, the Remainer constitution threatened america with economical doom. 

'Now acknowledgment to our hard-won commercialized freedoms, we are shielded from the punitive 20 per cent tariffs imposed connected the EU and tin usage our vantage to enactment towards a woody with the US.'

But Remainer MPs urged ministers to cosy up to Brussels. Stella Creasy, of the Labour Movement for Europe, blasted: 'Celebrating a tariff of 10 per cent alternatively than 20 per cent is similar celebrating that erstwhile you got mugged, they lone took your wallet and not your ticker arsenic well.'

And Liberal Democrat lawman person Daisy Cooper called connected ministers to signifier an 'economic conjugation of the willing' with the EU and countries specified arsenic Canada and Australia to co-ordinate retaliation.

Mr Reynolds said the Government would not take betwixt dealing with the EU oregon US. 

But the European Commission is already moving connected a retaliatory package. 

Its commercialized commissioner Maros Sefcovic insisted: 'We won't basal idly by, should we beryllium incapable to scope a just deal.'