Will Prescott

Will Prescott is a Senior Research Fellow at Bright Blue. He has a DPhil in history from the University of Oxford on the British Conservative Party and the role of the state between 1929 and 1940

Trump’s tariff plan has been tried before. It failed

Donald Trump thinks ‘tariff’ is the ‘most beautiful word in the dictionary’. Today is ‘Liberation Day’, and the US president is holding true to his campaign trail promise to impose tariffs on imports. Cars, steel and aluminium are expected to be hit with levies of up to 25 per cent. A 10 to 20 per