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What the Trump presidency could mean for the UK economy

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Donald Trump has a guiding principle: he is terrified of being a loser.

He sees the world as a series of zero -sum games and wants to fix it.

He believes that by imposing much higher tariffs on imports he can force companies to return manufacturing jobs to the US .

A weaker dollar would help the UK , because the US is our largest export destination.

You cannot have a “special relationship” with a nation that wants to make sure you are the loser in any given deal. As Angus Hanton points out in his excellent book on America ’s economic dominance of Britain , Vassal State , this relationship has been dysfunctional even when there were nice people in the White House . The US has long taken a very aggressive approach to ensuring its companies can out-compete (or just buy) British businesses. A good relationship with the EU has never been more important..