There was no end-of-term feel in the Commons today, despite it being the last PMQs before the Easter recess. As with last week’s prelude to the Spring Statement, the clash between Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch was not the main political event of the day. That will come at 9pm UK time, when Donald Trump unveils his “Liberation Day” tariffs and potentially plunges the global economy into trade war and downturn.
The shadow of the Trump tariffs hung over the House, with the Prime Minister kicking off by reiterating the Downing Street line that “a trade war is in nobody’s interest” and that the government was “prepared for all eventualities and has ruled nothing out”.
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