What does Trump 2.0 mean for the UK?
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🗓️ 24 January 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Freddie Hayward joins from Washington DC to answer listener questions on the new Trump administration.
Following his inauguration on Monday January 20, Donald Trump signed a flurry of executive orders to implement new policy or reverse work done by the Biden administration.
Listeners have asked what the US president's actions will mean for Britain.
Freddie joins Rachel Cunliffe and Hannah Barnes to answer your questions.
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| 1:02.6 | Hello, I'm Hannah Barnes, and this is where I put your pressing political questions to |
| 1:07.8 | the New Statesman's team. The anticipated second term of Donald Trump is upon us. |
| 1:14.0 | And to discuss his eventful first few days in office, |
| 1:16.5 | I'm joined in the studio by our Associate Political Editor Rachel Cunliff |
| 1:20.3 | and down the line from Washington, D.C. itself, |
| 1:23.9 | the New Statesman's US correspondent, Freddie Hayward. |
| 1:27.1 | Hello. |
| 1:29.8 | Hello. Hello. Now, as I mentioned, |
| 1:35.5 | this is, of course, our listener questions episode. And we've had a flurry come in about how events in the US are going to affect us here in the UK. But before we get to that, I think we just need to |
| 1:41.2 | set out what's been going on in Trump's America. |
| 1:45.2 | Because for the first time in decades, due to extreme weather conditions, |
| 1:49.5 | the inauguration was moved indoors. |
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