Starmer: Gov ‘looking carefully’ at EU tariffs on US as concerns raised for NI - Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn warned ‘there is an issue in respect to Northern Ireland’ if the EU brings in countermeasures.

Downing Street said the prime minister’s approach had saved thousands of jobs, but Starmer will now continue to negotiate a UK-US trade deal which he hopes will ultimately cut the US tariff on British exports.