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  • Sunday, 1 June, 2025
    UK backs Morocco’s ‘autonomy plan’ for Western Sahara

    David Lammy’s comments amount to effective British recognition of Rabat’s sovereignty over disputed territory

    A Moroccan flag flies over an army post in Western Sahara near the Mauritanian border
  • Sunday, 1 June, 2025
    UK trade
    UK to urge Trump administration to implement zero-tariff steel accord

    Meeting between Jonathan Reynolds and Jamieson Greer follows vow by US president to double tariff to 50%

    An employee walks behind a steel ingot at Sheffield Forgemasters in Sheffield
  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Budget cuts threaten UK soft power, warns government adviser

    Neil Mendoza says Britain must protect its leading position in higher education, science and the arts

    Lord Neil Mendoza
  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    UK politics
    UK’s top lawyer attacks Badenoch over call to leave European human rights treaty

    Attorney-general Richard Hermer says ‘pseudo-realist’ politicians risk providing ‘succour to Putin’

    Attorney-general Richard Hermer
  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    UK trade
    Trump tariff ruling risks slowing down delivery of UK trade deal

    Experts fear more ‘chaos and confusion’ surrounding implementation of pact

    A Jaguar Land Rover factory in Solihull
  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    UK trade
    UK seeks to speed up rollout of US trade deal

    Business secretary Jonathan Reynolds set to hold talks with US counterpart

    Aerial view of a large parking lot filled with numerous new cars from Jaguar Land Rover in Staffordshire
  • Tuesday, 27 May, 2025
    UK defends trade envoy’s trip to Israel even after suspending talks

    Ian Austin was pictured on a trip to Haifa a week after foreign secretary criticised the ‘abominable’ situation in Gaza

    Lord Ian Austin visits Israel
  • Friday, 23 May, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    Netanyahu lashes out at western allies

    Israeli PM accuses British, French and Canadian leaders of siding with Hamas after they called for end to Gaza offensive

    Benjamin Netanyahu gestures emphatically while speaking
  • Thursday, 22 May, 2025
    British Indian Ocean Territory
    UK to pay £101mn a year under deal to hand over Chagos Islands to Mauritius

    British government says accord will guarantee future of joint military base with US

  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    British Indian Ocean Territory
    UK set to sign Chagos Islands deal with Mauritius

    Britain to agree multibillion pound payment to retain access to Diego Garcia military base also used by US

    Diego Garcia, the largest island in the Chagos Archipelago and site of a major US-UK military base in the middle of the Indian Ocean
  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    UK considers sanctions against Israeli far-right ministers

    Discussions regard travel ban and asset freeze on finance minister Bezalel Smotrich and security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, speaks with the finance minister Bezalel Smotrich
  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
    Israel-Hamas war
    UK and EU ratchet up pressure on Israel over Gaza offensive

    International criticism of the military campaign in the Palestinian enclave increases

    An Israeli tank moves near the Gaza border
  • Monday, 19 May, 2025
    News in-depthBrexit
    What the post-Brexit reset deal means for the UK

    Agreement spans food, fishing, defence and youth mobility, but much remains to be finalised

    Montage shows pound notes, pigs, fish and a wind farm in the colours of the EU flag
  • Friday, 16 May, 2025
    The Big Read
    Flatter or confront? How world leaders are dealing with Trump

    Four months after Donald Trump returned to the White House, governments are still agonising over how to approach an erratic, unpredictable American president

  • Friday, 16 May, 2025
    Fishing industry urges Starmer to ‘hold nerve’ in UK-EU pact talks

    EU negotiators say Britain must agree to a long-term fisheries deal

    A fisherman sorts a box of line caught pollock in Newlyn harbour in the UK
  • Thursday, 15 May, 2025
    UK trade
    Lower US tariffs on UK exports unlikely to take effect for weeks, say British officials

    Companies complain of uncertainty around trade deal and plan to reduce levies on metals and cars

    New Land Rovers at JLR’s plant in Halewood, Liverpool
  • Wednesday, 14 May, 2025
    Starmer set for final round of talks in Albania on EU-UK reset

    With ‘goodwill on both sides’ prime minister will try to nail down wording of communiqué for Monday’s London summit

    Keir Starmer
  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
    Campaigners sue UK government to stop jet-part exports to Israel

    Palestinian human rights organisation argues F-35 fighter jets are ‘responsible for significant devastation in Gaza’

    An Israeli F-35 Lightning II fighter jet performs during an air show at the Hatzerim base in the Negev desert
  • Friday, 9 May, 2025
    UK trade
    The unanswered questions over Trump’s trade deal with Britain

    Pact lacks clarity in many crucial areas, say trade experts and industry bodies

    Montage shows an F-35 jet, some pills, a cow and a fuel pump against the US and UK flags
  • Friday, 9 May, 2025
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    Your questions answered

  • Friday, 9 May, 2025
    UK trade
    US-UK trade deal squeezes China supply chains

    Diplomats say pact’s provisions on strategic sectors is template for Washington

    A worker in a hard hat stands in front of glowing red hot metal being moved across a heavy forge at the Forgemasters works in Sheffield
  • Friday, 9 May, 2025
    FT News Briefing podcast13 min listen
    The US-UK trade deal

    White House and Downing Street celebrate tariff cuts

  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
    FT live news
    UK-US trade deal as it happened: Washington and London agree first pact of Trump’s trade wars; BoE cuts rates and warns of tariff hit to growth

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

  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
    UK trade
    Cars, cows, crops: the winners and losers from Trump’s trade deal with Britain

    Experts warn pact still leaves UK facing higher tariffs on exports to the US than before president returned to office

    Montage shows Range Rover car and a cow against a backdrop of UK and US flags
  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
    US-UK relations
    Months of talks, then a late scramble: how the UK finally struck a US trade deal

    Sir Keir Starmer welcomed agreement to blunt impact of Donald Trump’s tariffs

    Keir Starmer speaks on the phone with Donald Trump while visiting Jaguar Land Rover
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