Keir Starmer to attend European Council meeting in wake of US president’s tariff warfare threats
Catherine McKinnell, the schools minister, was doing the interview round this morning on behalf of No 10. She was put up to talk primarily about the proposed Ofsted report cards, but inevitably she ended up being asked about tariffs and President Trump. This is what she said on LBC when asked if the UK was going to choose the EU over the US as a preferred trading partner.
We have incredibly strong trading relationships with the European Union, but also with the United States. The European Union is obviously our largest trading partner. The United States, we have £300bn of trade with the United States. They’re our largest investor. We are the largest investor in the United States – £1.2tn a year invested in one another’s economies. I don’t think we should have to choose.
I think Keir Starmer has taken the right approach in building really strong relationships with our European neighbours and with the United States.
Our proposals will swap single headline grades for the rich, granular insight of school report cards.
Raising the bar on what we expect from schools, shining a light on all the areas that matter, each given their own grade.
