UK chancellor Rachel Reeves says Britain could exploit the chaos unleashed by Trump by presenting itself as ‘a place of stability’ to invest

Original Publish Date » April 9 , 2025
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Financial Times » Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said that Donald Trump’s global trade war has made it even more “imperative” for the UK to improve post-Brexit trading relations with the EU, ahead of a key summit next month.

Reeves is pushing for Britain to pursue an ambitious economic agenda in EU/UK “reset” talks, although the government continues to rule out any move to rejoin the EU customs union.

“Many of the developments, whether it is Russia’s invasion of Ukraine or the challenges in global trade at the moment, mean that there’s an even greater imperative to improve our trading relationships with Europe.”