{"id":81293,"date":"2025-04-02T06:39:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T05:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=81293"},"modified":"2025-04-02T06:39:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T05:39:32","slug":"at-least-were-only-facing-tariffs-and-not-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/04\/02\/at-least-were-only-facing-tariffs-and-not-invasion\/","title":{"rendered":"At least we\u2019re only facing tariffs, and not invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The prospect of Trump\u2019s tariffs creating significant costs for the UK was discussed on Sophy Ridge\u2019s programme on Sky News last night.<\/p>\n<p>Amongst those discussing the issue was Ed Vaizey, the former Tory culture minister who is now a peer. His suggestion was that at least we were only facing tariffs from Trump, and not invasion as Canada and Greenland are doing.<\/p>\n<p>This caused amusement, in an ironic way. Everyone realised how low the bar is now set when discussing US relations. \u00a0Trump really has debased the world of political economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prospect of Trump\u2019s tariffs creating significant costs for the UK was discussed on Sophy Ridge\u2019s programme on Sky News last night. Amongst those discussing<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/04\/02\/at-least-were-only-facing-tariffs-and-not-invasion\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[215,96,204,35,106,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-age-of-aggression","category-conservatives","category-economic-justice","category-economics","category-politics","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81293"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81302,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81293\/revisions\/81302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}