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Beyond the collective psychic, physical and emotional trauma, economists and other experts are warning that Trump’s deportation plan will also cause great financial and economic harm to the American people.

"October’s disappointing public finances figures underline the fiscal challenge that the chancellor still faces," said Alex Kerr, UK economist at Capital Economics.

Her biography on a Labour Party website from 2010 said: "Rachel has previously worked as an economist for the Bank of England, the British Embassy in Washington and at Halifax Bank of Scotland."

If he goes ahead and introduces tariffs - a tax imposed by one country on the goods and services imported from another - it could lead to a rise in prices, including in the UK, economists say.

As such, voters might have felt that another wage hike was unnecessary, said Chris Thornberg, an economist who founded Beacon Economics, a research and consulting firm in Los Angeles.