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Shadow Conservative Minister Neil O'Brien says that further potential tariffs threatened by US President Trump could be "quite serious" for UK businesses, urging the government to "use all of their diplomatic efforts" to try and get them down. Report by Keechl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Well, the government got to now use all of their diplomatic efforts to try and get down
00:05these potentially very damaging increases in tariffs on our exports to the U.S.
00:09I mean, it doesn't help that we've just had a massive scandal engulfing our ambassador to the U.S.
00:14and we've had Peter Mandelson forced to resign in disgrace.
00:16So the weakening of our diplomatic clout in Washington could not have come at a worse time
00:21and the consequences for businesses in the U.K. are going to be quite serious.
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