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On Tuesday, Britain declined to join the EU threatening trade fight with the USA over steel tariffs and followed Washington in rejection to sign a global artificial intelligence agreement, in a sign that Sir Keir Starmer set a new foreign policy during President Donald Trump.
Lord Peter Mandelson, British New Ambassador to the United States, said the Financial Times That Britain had to accept “any opening capabilities as a result of Brexit” and earn a living in the world by “not Europe”.
An early sign of this approach came while the Douglas Alexander trade minister told MPs that the UK would not immediately join the EU threatening tariff repression Against the United States, after Trump announced a 25 -hour tax on all imports of steel and aluminum.
Alexander said that steel tariffs did not need to enter into force until March 12 and that Britain would use the time to talk to Trump’s administration and evaluate its capabilities.
“Of course, we want to avoid significant escalation,” he said. “This is an opportunity for the UK to execute a cold head and a clear feeling where national interest is.”
Downing Street has not excluded tariff retaliation, but the ministers privately admit that such a move would have little influence on the US and risk Britain to put in order for further Trump’s tariffs.
Alexander said that British steel exports to the United States are worth around £ 400 million and that the tariffs would be a “significant blow”, but Downing Street noted that they were only about 5 percent of steel exports in the UK.
Although the number 10 left the retail retailers on the table, there was no one in Brussels to talk about “solid and proportional countermeasures”.
Mandelson, who started working in Washington this week, said he remained convinced that it was Brexit “He caused the greatest damage to the country of anything in life,” but accepted that he would not turn.
The working-class peer said that one of his goals of “signature” as an ambassador would be to build closer relationships between the UK and the US on AI and technology, warning that the EU has become too tied to rules.
Sir Iain Duncan Smith, a former leader of the conservative, said: “These freedom Brexit couldn’t come at a better time. We have the opportunity to set up our US policy for US -Ai Peter Mandelson to remind people in Washington that we are out there with the EU.”
“It’s funny that the Government of the work revealed the benefits of Brexit,” said a veteran diplomat.
However, the attempts to “reset” the EU relations with EU could be harmed if Brussels experienced Starmer, the Prime Minister, to get too close to Washington and undermine the European economic model.
Tuesday Britain joined the USA -uu rejection of signing Global AI agreement in Paris; The statement was signed by France, China and India, among other countries.
Downing Street said France remained a close partner in areas such as AI, but that the UK “failed to agree on all parts of the leader’s declaration” and that “he would” ever apply for initiatives that are in the UK national interests “.
The statement pledged “open”, “inclusive” and “ethical” approach to the development of AI, but US V
A senior government official in the UK said Britain decided not to sign the communist because his language was not focused enough on national security and tilted more according to focusing on security and ethics.
“We recorded a slightly different EU approach. . . The character of the way we deal with AI is quite different, “the person added, noting that the strategy” diplomatically opened the door “in terms of British business with the US.
The Government of the UK sought to position its AI security institute as an organization aimed at national security, with direct connections with GCHQ intelligence agency.
The older figures around Trump, including Elona Musk, were very critical of the focus of the administration of Joe Biden about “wake -up” concerns about the safety of AI, including bias and disinformation, but are deeply involved in the efforts to ensure that the new technology permeates the national safety of the West in the West in West interests.
