London | British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has adopted the same tactic as his Labor counterpart, Anthony Albanese, in response to US President Donald Trump’s tariff salvo: keeping his head down and hoping for a better deal down the track.

While Canada has locked horns with the US in a vicious war of words and levies, and the European Union has unveiled a counter-attack on €26 billion ($45 billion) worth of imports from America, both Starmer and Albanese have chosen not to respond with retaliatory tariffs.