To somehow find a way of letting The Donald know he had been absolutely right to impose trade tariffs on the UK – it was exactly in the interests of both countries and the government couldn’t have been more thrilled not to have been made exempt.
There were just 25 MPs in the Commons – including the frontbench teams of the three main parties – to try to discover the answers at the urgent question tabled by the shadow trade minister, Harriett Baldwin.
No one in the Commons has a clue how to deal with looming US tariffs on steel.
By the time Dougie had sat down for the first time, no one was any the wiser what the government planned to do about tariffs.
Up until now, the UK government’s strategy for dealing with President Trump has worked out pretty much OK.
