10 h. ago Donald Trump will meet with 'his friend' the King at Windsor Castle to fix arrangements for 'unprecedented' second State visit

Sir Keir Starmer urged Donald Trump to drop his tariffs on British exports yesterday after the US President warned he could keep 'substantial' levies in place.

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12 h. ago Starmer urges free trade in first call with Trump after UK hit by sweeping US tariffs

It comes as Rachel Reeves is due to hold talks with the White House next week amid efforts to strike a trade deal

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16 h. ago Trump says US may ‘take a pass’ from Ukraine talks if they prove too difficult

Sir Keir Starmer discussed Ukraine with the US president in a phone call on Friday, Downing Street said.

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16 h. ago Keir Starmer and Donald Trump discuss 'ongoing and productive' trade talks in first call since the US slapped 10 per cent tariffs on British goods

The two leaders discussed the 'ongoing and productive discussions' on trade between the two countries, a Downing Street spokesperson said.

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18 h. ago Starmer and Trump discuss ‘ongoing and productive’ trade talks

They also talked about the situation in Ukraine, Iran and recent action taken against the Houthis in Yemen.

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18 h. ago Donald Trump has phonecall with Keir Starmer where four major issues raised

Donald Trump and PM Keir Starmer hold phonecall for the first time since the White House slapped tariffs on global imports - sending shockwaves across worldwide markets

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18 h. ago Starmer will not be able to have his cake and eat it with a Trump trade deal and a Brexit reset

As two hard deadlines come up in the next three months over a Trump trade deal and a Brexit reset, The Independent’s political editor David Maddox looks at why Keir Starmer may be forced to make a choice he does not want to acknowledge

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23 h. ago Placate or retaliate? Starmer and Carney are both right on Trump

The long goodbye to the US-led world order means leaders must tread carefully

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26 h. ago Blow for Keir Starmer as Donald Trump says 'baseline' 10 per cent tariffs are set to stay

The US President has imposed sweeping 10 per cent tariffs on all goods imported to America, while he has also slapped 25 per cent charges on aluminium, steel and cars.

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28 h. ago Trump expected to make UK state visit and visit King Charles in September

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer brought Trump a letter from the King in February in which he was offered an unprecedented second state visit to the UK

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50 h. ago Britain could sign a trade deal with Donald Trump 'within three weeks'

Sir Keir Starmer has been pushing for an agreement with America in a bid to lower the 10 per cent tariffs on British goods imposed by the US President.

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54 h. 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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68 h. ago ‘How dare the US attack the UK’s free speech’ Independent readers call out trade deal demands

Our community share their views on the US trade deal ultimatum, from outrage at ‘JD Vance’s demand to scrap LGBT+ protections’ to calls for Keir Starmer to ‘defend British laws, not bow to US pressure’

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69 h. ago The US needs to understand that truth and trade are not interchangeable

Editorial: We must seriously question whether a deal that sacrifices truth in favour of populist, hard-right ideology is worth it

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3 d. ago Starmer told to accept Trump ‘free speech’ agenda to win trade deal

‘Good chance’ of agreement, says JD Vance – but sources say his concerns over Britain’s hate speech laws ‘are still a red line’

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4 d. ago Starmer’s ambitions for a Trump trade deal have a big problem – JD Vance

Insiders have told The Independent that if you want to know what Trump is really thinking, listen to what JD Vance is saying. That is very bad news for Starmer, as David Maddox explains

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4 d. ago UK pays second part of £2 billion loan to Ukraine amid ‘critical moment’

The defence secretary said the first £752 million payment will help to buy air defence, artillery and parts to get Ukraine ‘back into the fight’.

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5 d. ago UK suspends import tariffs to ease strain for British businesses

Levies cut on 89 products to support domestic companies against Trump’s trade war

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6 d. ago How YOU can join millions in the Barbiecore craze taking the world by storm

Donald Trump , Elon Musk and Keir Starmer are among the public figures that have emerged as shiny miniature dolls.

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6 d. ago Make America make again? Trump’s tariffs will only be manufacturing pipe dreams | John Naughton

The president’s gambit to bring the production of goods such as iPhones back to the US ignores huge supply chain complexitiesDonald Trump’s tariff strategy has at least one biblical connection: like the peace of God, it “passeth all understanding” (Philippians 4:7). Rival attempts to extract a rationale from the chaos include the idea that he is trying to devalue the dollar, or that he is seeking to “reshore” the manufacturing capacity that the US lost through decades of globalisation. My own hunch is that he just wants to show who’s the big boss around here – or as British science fiction author Charles Stross puts it, that he “expects individual nations to come to him, hat in hand, like terrified shopkeepers pleading for mercy from a mafia don”.Cue the UK’s very own Trump whisperer, Keir Starmer, who, according to Politico, plans “to put a review of online safety rules on the table in trade talks” with the US. Which, translated, means that things such as the Online Safety Act and ...

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