The “world as we knew it” is over, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said, as the world braced for further fallout from the introduction of US tariffs.
US President Donald Trump’s announcement of sweeping tariffs on Wednesday shows that “old assumptions can no longer be taken for granted,” Mr Starmer said in a op-ed for the Sunday Telegraph newspaper.
“The world as we knew it has gone,” he wrote.
The new world will be governed less by established rules and “more by deals and alliances,” added the prime minister.
The tariffs have already sent markets into a tailspin, and all eyes will be on…