Keir Starmer orders UK economic reset amid Donald Trump's tariff mayhem

Keir Starmer is preparing to rethink key elements of the government's economic policy in an emergency response to Donald Trump's tariff blitz, amid growing concern in Downing Street that the US president's trade war could do lasting damage to the UK. The prime minister believes, say allies, that "old assumptions should be discarded" in the UK's response, suggesting he and the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, may be preparing to raise taxes again - despite having promised not to do so - or even possibly change their "iron clad" fiscal rules to allow more borrowing and fire up economic growth at home…