“Globalisation is a force of nature, not a policy,” said Tony Blair six years ago. “It is a fact.”
Now, with Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs upending the near century-long process of integrating the global economy, the current prime minister has declared that era effectively over.
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