Transport secretary Heidi Alexander on Good Morning BritainPresenters repeatedly questioned the government’s “weak” response to Donald Trump’stariff chaos this morning.The US president slapped sweeping levies on foreign goods going into the States last week.The UK received the “base rate” of 10% on all its exports heading to America, on top of the global 25% levy the president has already put on cars and steel products.The fallout is continuing to rock the global economy this week as markets adjust to the change.The index of Britain’s top 100 companies, the FTSE, dropped sharply this morning after Trump confirmed he would not back down over his drastic tariffs. So far, Labour has promised to keep “cool heads” with no “knee-jerk” reciprocal taxes on US goods, in a bid to avoid a trade war.The government is hoping to get an economic trade deal over the line with Trump soon with British exemptions from the tariffs, but that is yet to be secured.Instead it has announced