11 h. ago Will Keir Starmer get ANYTHING out of Donald Trump's visit? Steel industry misery as deal to slash US tariffs is abandoned despite PM's boasts

Little more than four months on from the Prime Minister boasting of his 'fantastic' deal with Donald Trump, it was revealed that punitive levies on British steel will remain.

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11 h. ago ‘One in, one out’ deal will go ahead, says Liz Kendall after last

Minister insists court ruling that blocked deportation of Eritrean man ‘will not undermine basis’ of deal with FranceUK politics live – latest updatesKeir Starmer’s returns deal with France will go ahead, a cabinet minister has insisted, despite a high court ruling that temporarily blocked the deportation of an Eritrean man.Liz Kendall, the technology secretary, said the last-minute injunction stopping the 25-year-old from being flown to Paris would not scupper the “one in, one out” scheme for ever. Continue reading...

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12 h. ago Temporary block on man’s deportation will not undermine returns deal – minister

Liz Kendall said the High Court decision was disappointing but it would not prevent the rest of the agreement with France going ahead.

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6 d. ago UK to mass produce drones to help Ukraine fight off Russian aerial attacks

It is the first project under a technology-sharing deal with Kyiv, the Ministry of Defence said.

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2 w. ago UK troops could deploy to Ukraine straight away if peace deal reached says minister

Armed forces minister Luke Pollard told The Mirror an 'enormous' amount of planning has gone into a Ukraine peacekeeping operation as he hailed moves to improve recruitment and retention

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2 w. ago UK Government to address the nation after weekend of fury across country

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper will address MPs this afternoon about Labour's plans to deal with immigration as one minister hinted at reforming the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)

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3 w. ago Accusations of treason over EU food and drink deal are ‘nonsense’, minister says

The EU relations minister said detailed talks on a pact with the bloc are due to start in the autumn.

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3 w. ago UK’s EU relations minister to take on Farage over planned food deal

Nick Thomas-Symonds to defend alignment with Brussels’ rules as he accuses Reform UK leader of hurting business

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3 w. ago Minister discussed £2bn deal to give ChatGPT Plus to all UK residents, says report

Peter Kyle and Sam Altman are said to have discussed a deal to give the whole country access to ChatGPT’s premium service

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3 w. ago Moscow must have effective veto over any measures to support Ukraine after potential peace deal, says minister – Ukraine war live

Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, says European proposals to deploy troops in Ukraine after a settlement would amount to ‘foreign intervention’We have just heard from the European Commission, confirming that the EU and the US have now agreed on the much-awaited “joint statement” advancing the political commitments on trade agreed by Ursula von der Leyen and Donald Trump in Scotland last month.The commission’s press release says the statement “lays out in detail the new US tariff regime towards the EU, with a clear maximum, all-inclusive, tariff rate of 15% for the vast majority of EU exports, including strategic sectors such as cars, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors and lumber.” Continue reading...

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