April 1, 2025 • 5 mins
The UK is expecting to be hit by new US tariffs on Wednesday, with Downing Street indicating a new deal with the US won't be reached in time.
President Donald Trump is set to unveil a raft of tariffs tomorrow - and it's widely believed they'll hit all countries, not just those with the biggest trade imbalances with the US.
UK correspondent Enda Brady says Prime Minister Starmer doesn't plan to introduce reciprocal tariffs just yet, and they're waiting for the full announcement.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In the Brady's at UK correspondent in a good evening.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
To you, hey, Ryan, good to speak to you again.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Good to speak to your ton. Now Birmingham has declared
a major incident. It's all to do with rubbish. What's
going on.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
An ongoing strike in industrial action between the bin men
and women who work for Birmingham City Council. They're angry
about pay and changes to their working conditions. This has
been going on for some weeks, believe it or not,
and this is absolutely shocking. Seventeen thousand tons of refuse
(00:33):
on the streets of Birmingham are right now uncollected. Now
the councils say they have been sending out the odd
lurry here and there, leaving their depots to try and
get the refuse off the streets. It's un hygiene, clearly
it could cause health problems for the population, and the
councilor claiming that picketers are stopping lurri's leaving the depots
(00:54):
and that's exacerbating the problem. So some common sense needs
to be used here. But it looks if you were
to look at parts of Birmingham right now and say
that this is a small mafia infested town in southern
Italy where there's some corruption problems with the local refuse collectors.
You could see and understand why rubbish is piled high.
(01:14):
This is Birmingham in England in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Yeah, not a great look, is that?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Now?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
The S and P five hundred, the nasdeck composite had
their worst quarters since twenty twenty two this quarter. Obviously
we're all bracing for what Trump is going to do tomorrow.
How is well, what is the UK and Europe doing
to prepare in them?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Well, I can tell you kir Starmer is not going
to put in reciprocal tariffs. That was one view, that
one card that the UK had up with sleeve. But
what we're hearing this morning here is that they will
just see what happens tomorrow. The word in UK government
is that Trump is looking for a big bang tomorrow.
So we know he loves the headlines, he loves the limelight.
(01:59):
So the feeling is in Europe that there's going to
be at least a twenty percent tariff right across the
board and everything going into the United States from Europe.
Now Britain is not going to bite back. There had
been the hope that Britain would be exempt, that they
might carve the UK out of all of these European tariffs.
Because Trump and Starmer have a good relationship, the UK
(02:21):
government had put stuff on the table as a kind
of sweetener for the Americans and the Trump administration removing
the Digital Services Tax, which brings in about one point
six billion dollars a year from American tech, that was
going to be taken off the table. And ultimately Trump
wants his big day, he wants his big bang, and
I think the big fear here Ryan is what's it
(02:43):
going to do to UK GDP? All the predictions are
it would wipe zero point six of a percentage off
the annual GDP for Britain. That would put us into reception.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Now, Kise Dama got a lot of US plate. He's
held a news conference in London is over the issue
of the bike migrants. What's he's saying now?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
So he says it's unrealistic to reduce it down to zero,
but they have to try. Now. The backdrop to all
of this is that the numbers are getting worse and worse.
So far this year six one thousand, six hundred and
forty two men, women and children, predominantly young working age
men have got into the UK illegally on these dinghies
(03:25):
from France. Six thousand, six hundred and forty two. That
is the highest it has ever been on April the first,
So something needs to change. The mathematics. The financials on
this ryan are shocking. Sixteen million dollars a day are
being spent on hotel accommodation for asylum seekers coming into
the UK via dinghies from France. So Stamer's big conference,
(03:49):
interestingly he got loads of leaders and politicians and police
and coast Guard representatives. He also got the social media
companies in all the big ones. I'm not going to
name them, you know who they are. And the reason
he got them in is because, believe it or not,
these criminal gangs people smugglers are advertising their services on
(04:10):
social media, how you can get into the UK, how
much you need to pay, where you need to be,
and look what they give you, a lovely big hotel,
to give you clothing, then you get a job. All
of this is being advertised that their entire business model
is like something you see on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Absolutely shocking, which does that not reinforce the point that
the right makes about not providing those things in the
first place.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
It's a very very good point. But look, the criminal
gangs are exploiting everything, the people's desperation, and they're pointing
out what's on offer when you get to the UK.
But I find it amazing that in this day and age,
they're able to use the algorithms, they're able to advertise
as if they're a legitimate business. And Britain's picking up
(04:57):
the pieces. But look, we've got NGOs here, we've got
charity and I've seen it firsthand myself in Europe. I've
been there in Italy, guys literally getting off boats and
being given brand new two hundred dollars trainers because they've
nothing else. And it is it is a business. It
is That is the only way to describe it. It
is a business. And I've seen this firsthand. Less any
(05:19):
of our listeners get in touch on Twitter, I've been there.
I've seen it.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Interesting Inda, thank you for that really interesting stuff. Into Brady,
our UK correspondent.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
For more from Hither Duplessy Alan Drive, listen live to
news talks it'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
In the Brady's at UK correspondent in a good evening.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
To you, hey, Ryan, good to speak to you again.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Good to speak to your ton. Now Birmingham has declared
a major incident. It's all to do with rubbish. What's
going on.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
An ongoing strike in industrial action between the bin men
and women who work for Birmingham City Council. They're angry
about pay and changes to their working conditions. This has
been going on for some weeks, believe it or not,
and this is absolutely shocking. Seventeen thousand tons of refuse
(00:33):
on the streets of Birmingham are right now uncollected. Now
the councils say they have been sending out the odd
lurry here and there, leaving their depots to try and
get the refuse off the streets. It's un hygiene, clearly
it could cause health problems for the population, and the
councilor claiming that picketers are stopping lurri's leaving the depots
(00:54):
and that's exacerbating the problem. So some common sense needs
to be used here. But it looks if you were
to look at parts of Birmingham right now and say
that this is a small mafia infested town in southern
Italy where there's some corruption problems with the local refuse collectors.
You could see and understand why rubbish is piled high.
(01:14):
This is Birmingham in England in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Yeah, not a great look, is that?
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Now?
Speaker 1 (01:20):
The S and P five hundred, the nasdeck composite had
their worst quarters since twenty twenty two this quarter. Obviously
we're all bracing for what Trump is going to do tomorrow.
How is well, what is the UK and Europe doing
to prepare in them?
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Well, I can tell you kir Starmer is not going
to put in reciprocal tariffs. That was one view, that
one card that the UK had up with sleeve. But
what we're hearing this morning here is that they will
just see what happens tomorrow. The word in UK government
is that Trump is looking for a big bang tomorrow.
So we know he loves the headlines, he loves the limelight.
(01:59):
So the feeling is in Europe that there's going to
be at least a twenty percent tariff right across the
board and everything going into the United States from Europe.
Now Britain is not going to bite back. There had
been the hope that Britain would be exempt, that they
might carve the UK out of all of these European tariffs.
Because Trump and Starmer have a good relationship, the UK
(02:21):
government had put stuff on the table as a kind
of sweetener for the Americans and the Trump administration removing
the Digital Services Tax, which brings in about one point
six billion dollars a year from American tech, that was
going to be taken off the table. And ultimately Trump
wants his big day, he wants his big bang, and
I think the big fear here Ryan is what's it
(02:43):
going to do to UK GDP? All the predictions are
it would wipe zero point six of a percentage off
the annual GDP for Britain. That would put us into reception.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Now, Kise Dama got a lot of US plate. He's
held a news conference in London is over the issue
of the bike migrants. What's he's saying now?
Speaker 2 (03:04):
So he says it's unrealistic to reduce it down to zero,
but they have to try. Now. The backdrop to all
of this is that the numbers are getting worse and worse.
So far this year six one thousand, six hundred and
forty two men, women and children, predominantly young working age
men have got into the UK illegally on these dinghies
(03:25):
from France. Six thousand, six hundred and forty two. That
is the highest it has ever been on April the first,
So something needs to change. The mathematics. The financials on
this ryan are shocking. Sixteen million dollars a day are
being spent on hotel accommodation for asylum seekers coming into
the UK via dinghies from France. So Stamer's big conference,
(03:49):
interestingly he got loads of leaders and politicians and police
and coast Guard representatives. He also got the social media
companies in all the big ones. I'm not going to
name them, you know who they are. And the reason
he got them in is because, believe it or not,
these criminal gangs people smugglers are advertising their services on
(04:10):
social media, how you can get into the UK, how
much you need to pay, where you need to be,
and look what they give you, a lovely big hotel,
to give you clothing, then you get a job. All
of this is being advertised that their entire business model
is like something you see on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Absolutely shocking, which does that not reinforce the point that
the right makes about not providing those things in the
first place.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
It's a very very good point. But look, the criminal
gangs are exploiting everything, the people's desperation, and they're pointing
out what's on offer when you get to the UK.
But I find it amazing that in this day and age,
they're able to use the algorithms, they're able to advertise
as if they're a legitimate business. And Britain's picking up
(04:57):
the pieces. But look, we've got NGOs here, we've got
charity and I've seen it firsthand myself in Europe. I've
been there in Italy, guys literally getting off boats and
being given brand new two hundred dollars trainers because they've
nothing else. And it is it is a business. It
is That is the only way to describe it. It
is a business. And I've seen this firsthand. Less any
(05:19):
of our listeners get in touch on Twitter, I've been there.
I've seen it.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Interesting Inda, thank you for that really interesting stuff. Into Brady,
our UK correspondent.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
For more from Hither Duplessy Alan Drive, listen live to
news talks it'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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