UK is in discussions with EU over 'catastophic' steel tariffs

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Naomi Smith, chief executive of Best for Britain, said: "This troubling development is yet another demonstration of the mounting cost of Brexit and Nigel Farage will have to explain to the steel workers he pretends to champion, how leaving the EU has benefitted them.
53% : "In relation to the question of tariffs or other measures, as you'd expect, we are in discussions with the EU about this, as we're in discussions with the US about it.
52% : "Outside the EU we are much more exposed and this, coupled with the expectation that Trump will force the NHS to pay more to US pharma companies, is catastrophic news ahead of the Budget."
44% : " While anti-Brexit campaigners hit out at Nigel Farage over the new tariff, which is expected to come in in the summer of 2026.
41% : It would effectively match the levy US President Donald Trump previously imposed on the EU.
41% : The UK exports 78 per cent of its steel to the EU, and Community, the union which represents British Steel workers in Scunthorpe, said it was an "existential threat" to the sector.

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