6 h. ago Defiant Starmer swipes that critics of his 'island of strangers' immigration crackdown are 'talking rubbish' as Labour backlash mounts... despite poll suggesting Brits agree

Keir Starmer gave short shrift to a rebuke over the his policy shift as he took PMQs this lunchtime.

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7 h. ago Watch live: Starmer faces Badenoch at PMQs after immigration crackdown backlash

Watch live as Keir Starmer faces Kemi Badenoch at PMQs on Wednesday (14 May), as he continues to face criticism for his “island of stranger speech”.

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13 h. ago Inside Netflix’s Fred and Rose West documentary: ‘There are huge, huge lessons here’

The director of the streamer’s latest ‘A British Horror Story’ series tells Ellie Harrison why he agreed to make a show about the husband-and-wife serial killers – and how he wanted to challenge the traditional true-crime audience

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56 h. ago British soldiers will be sent to fight Russia alongside EU troops under a landmark new pact

Laked documents revealed that the UK and EU are set to unveil a defence agreement next week, bringing Britain into the deepest military alignment with the EU since its historic 2020 departure.

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5 d. ago How Singalong Starmer got his deal and a bit part in Trump, the Musical | Marina Hyde

Finally, a British prime minister has landed a trade agreement with the US. It’s just a shame it’s not a very good oneA huge day in import-export yesterday, as even Rome’s billion-per-cent tariff on American popes was lifted. The much bigger news, though, concerned the partial easing of recently imposed import taxes on British goods in the form of a starter UK-US trade deal, leaving the biggest little country in the world basking in the glow of an achievement our own prime minister seemed to hint had something of VE Day to it. In Britain, we have an old saying about dejection – “you look like you’ve lost a pound and found a sixpence” – but this was an entirely new spin on that scenario, given we were mostly celebrating being back to paying 10% more tariffs than we were subject to a few weeks ago. Yessss! A sixpence! Good times.Before we get to the specifics of the deal, the theatre. I do find myself increasingly mesmerised by Trump’s Oval Office tableaux, which typically feature him...

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6 d. ago British Airways owner to buy Boeing jets after US and UK agree trade deal

US president promises ‘breakthrough’ pact will be first of many as he signals optimism on China talks

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6 d. ago Britain hasn’t agreed a trade deal with the US – it’s ended a hostage negotiation | Gaby Hinsliff

There will be relief for carmakers but not much else to celebrate: Trump’s whims still hang over the UK – and the world – economyHang out the bunting and let the church bells ring. A VE Day trade deal with Donald Trump is done, and in the car plants of the West Midlands as much as in the backrooms of No 10, there will be understandable relief that, for now at least, America’s phoney war on them is over.It’s true that the easing of arbitrary tariffs on cars, steel and aluminium that didn’t even exist until eight weeks ago falls far short of being an actual trade deal, not least because the president could rip it up again tomorrow if he felt like it. But the terms agreed between London and Washington could save thousands of jobs, which isn’t to be sniffed at, even if they’re jobs that need never have been at risk in the first place had Trump not suddenly chosen to threaten them. More surprisingly, Rachel Reeves seems to have managed to hang on to her digital services tax on (mostly US...

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6 d. ago Tories accuse Starmer of 'shafting' Britain with US trade deal: Trump lowers tariffs on car and steel exports to America while US farmers get access to Britain

Donald Trump said the agreement would be 'really good' for both sides - as British businesses hope for relief from his brutal tariffs.

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6 d. ago Tories accuse Starmer of 'shafting' Britain with US trade deal: President lowers tariffs on car and steel exports to America while US farmers get access to Britain

Donald Trump said the agreement would be 'really good' for both sides - as British businesses hope for relief from his brutal tariffs.

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7 d. ago Modi’s deadly bombing strike on Pakistan goes to the heart of India’s great dilemma | Chietigj Bajpaee

A military attack on the same day as a trade deal with the UK reveals a nation keen to strut the world stage, but hampered by regional enmity and historyConcluding a “landmark” trade agreement with the UK and launching military operations against Pakistan on the same day: it is fair to say that, for India, the future and the past have collided this week. The agreement with Britain, which has been three years in the making, is one of several India is negotiating, including with the US and EU. It illustrates its appeal as a rising global power – the world’s most populous country and its fastest-growing major economy, which is also the fifth (and on course to be third) largest overall. In contrast, the military operations targeting Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir demonstrate how India continues to be bogged down by instabilities in its neighbourhood and held hostage to its history.India’s military actions are in response to a terrorist attack last month in which 26 tourists ...

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7 d. ago Keir Starmer hails India trade deal as a 'huge win for working people' at PMQs as ministers insist tax agreement will NOT 'undercut' Brits

Sir Keir used Prime Ministers Questions to taunt the Tories, saying the £5bn agreement was the largest made by the UK since Brexit.

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8 d. ago Britain and India agree £5billion free trade deal on visas and tariffs on cars, textiles and whisky

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the agreement was mutually beneficial

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8 d. ago Britain and India agree free trade deal, says Narendra Modi after talks on visas and tariffs

India’s Prime Minister said the agreement was ‘mutually beneficial’

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8 d. ago British takeaway! Deliveroo agrees to £2.9bn deal from US rival DoorDash

The Silicon Valley-based group, the largest food delivery platform in the US, said it would pay 180 pence per share in cash for Deliveroo.

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2 w. ago Kemi Badenoch accuses Labour leader of 'selling out' British fishing rights to the EU in exchange for a new trade deal

The Prime Minister is close to agreeing a reset with the European Union which will allow British defence companies to bid for a new €150 billion defence fund.

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3 w. ago Simon Cowell agrees to unusual favour for Britain's Got Talent fan in show first

Max Fox has made history on Britain's Got Talent after the judges decided to give him the golden buzzer following his rendition of Frank Sinatra's My Way

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3 w. ago Marks & Spencer and Sainsbury's among supermarket giants demanding EU agree a deal with Britain on plant and animal exports amid Donald Trump's trade chaos

Marks & Spencer and Sainsbury's are among 12 firms to have written to European Commission vice-president Maros Sefcovic in support of a 'veterinary agreement'.

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3 w. ago Can we stop pretending a trade deal with Trump will be a gamechanger for the UK. It won’t | Martin Kettle

I’m not saying Britain should refuse every sort of free trade agreement with the US, but there may be options that better suit Labour’s purposeIt’s a deal. The words sound good. Most human beings are primed to think of a deal as desirable in itself. It isn’t hard to see why. Agreement is generally better than disagreement. In most aspects of life, shaking hands under shared rules makes sense. So it takes a bit of effort to think more objectively. But it is important to do that now, especially in the case of the proposed UK trade deal with the United States.Even before Donald Trump became president again, and long before the US started its current tariff wars, there were already plenty of reasons for caution about what a free trade deal with the US might look like. In the wake of Brexit, these concerns centred on whether a deal could be struck – and sold at home – on bilateral trade issues such as pharmaceuticals, food products and digital regulation, on all of which very different s...

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4 w. ago Visas not an issue in UK trade talks, insists India's top diplomat in London amid Trump tariff chaos

Vikram K Doraiswami stressed that his country wanted Indian companies to be able to move staff to Britain ‘more easily’ as part of an agreement, but their focus was on hiring locally

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4 w. ago We don't want more visas, says India's top diplomat in London on trade deal with UK amid Trump tariff chaos

Vikram K Doraiswami stressed that his country wanted Indian companies to be able to move staff to Britain ‘more easily’ as part of an agreement, but their focus was on hiring locally

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