Donald Trump's 10% tariff on UK products came into force on Saturday, as global stock markets have continued to fall in response to the imposition of import taxes.The FTSE 100 plummeted on Friday in its worst day of trading since the start of the pandemic while markets on Wall Street also tumbled.Sir Keir Starmer is expected to spend the weekend speaking to foreign leaders about the tariffs, after calls with the prime ministers of Australia and Italy on Friday in which the leaders agreed that a

Donald Trump's 10% tariff on UK products came into force on Saturday, as global stock markets have continued to fall in response to the imposition of import taxes.The FTSE 100 plummeted on Friday in its worst day of trading since the start of the pandemic while markets on Wall Street also tumbled.Sir Keir Starmer is expected to spend the weekend speaking to foreign leaders about the tariffs, after calls with the prime ministers of Australia and Italy on Friday in which the leaders agreed that a trade war would be "extremely damaging".