Overview
- Sir Ed Davey welcomed a US Supreme Court decision that struck down tariffs imposed by President Trump last April, calling the ruling “brilliant.”
- He urged Prime Minister Keir Starmer to sue President Trump for $100 billion, alleging the tariffs harmed Scotland and the wider UK economy.
- Davey argued the government has achieved nothing in talks with Washington and said the UK should not “kowtow to a bully.”
- He called for alternative trade routes, including a new EU–UK customs union and agreements with Commonwealth partners such as Canada.
- Speaking in Edinburgh at the Scottish Liberal Democrats conference and to the Press Association, he labeled Trump “the most dangerous, damaging US president of modern times” and praised Mark Carney for “standing up” to him.