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Former Australia cricketer Stuart MacGill has avoided jail after being found guilty of taking part in the supply of cocaine. The 54-year-old was given a 22-month intensive corrections order and 495 hours of community service on Friday. MacGill pleaded not guilty but had admitted to the use of cocaine and to introducing his brother-in-law to his...
6 minutes ago ShareSave ShareSave “U.S. trade deal made by Brexit”, states the Daily Mail which is one of many newspapers to lead on news of the US and the UK’s new agreement. The Mail notes it is a bid to save the British car industry, which had been subject to American tariffs. The Financial...
It is turning out to be quite the month for trade deals of various complexions. There was the one with India earlier this week, now the pact with the US, and a new deal with the European Union is expected the week after next at a UK-EU summit in London. All sorts of arrangements, varying...
Getty Images/Pool/AFP The US has agreed to reduce import taxes on a set number of British cars and allow some steel and aluminium into the country tariff-free, as part of a new agreement between the US and UK. The announcement offers relief for key UK industries from some of the new tariffs announced by President...
The key diplomatic win here is that it leaves the UK open to do a full EU deal on, for example, food standards. Economically this US deal is relatively small, although important to very specific sectors. It rolls back on some of the trade damage done by Trump’s original announcement, in particular to the car...
There is a left-wing meme being pushed that President Trump’s trade deal with the UK is a sham. As I peruse X to keep up with the news and the Narrative™, NeverTrumpers are trying to pour cold water on Trump’s talk of a deal. It’s for obvious reasons: the more it looks like Trump’s tariffs...
Jennifer Meierhans Business reporter, BBC News Getty Images The US and the UK are expected to announce a deal to reduce tariffs later. It’s thought US President Trump’s blanket 10% tariffs on imports will stay, but that the UK will see cuts to the 25% tariffs on some of its biggest exports. Here’s a look...
Henry Zeffman Chief political correspondent EPA The UK has been desperate for a deal of this sort with the US since President Donald Trump unleashed his wave of global tariffs. So have other countries. But it seems the UK has got there first – a significant achievement by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and his...
US President Donald Trump has teased what he called a “major trade deal”, which would mark the first such agreement to be announced since he imposed tariffs on dozens of America’s trading partners. He will hold a news conference at 10:00 in Washington DC (15:00 BST) to announce an agreement with “representatives of a big,...
The Irish Football Association (IFA) has confirmed that Northern Ireland’s home ground will be renamed the Clearer Twist National Stadium at Windsor Park after the agreement of an eight-year sponsorship deal. Clearer Twist is a product from County Antrim company Clearer Water, who also hold naming rights over the Irish Cup. The final of that...
The UK government has hit back against claims by opposition parties that the newly-agreed trade deal with India could disadvantage British workers. Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds told the BBC there was “no situation” in which he would “ever tolerate” British workers being undercut as a result of a trade agreement. One part of the deal...
Within moments of the briefing with the business secretary beginning, Jonathan Reynolds described it to us as a case study in the government’s claim to be going further and faster in doing what it can to improve living standards. Little wonder ministers want to lean into this deal with Delhi, grappling as they are with...
Several newspapers lead with stories on a new trade deal worth £5bn between India and the UK. Quoting both Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, the Telegraph’s report describes the agreement as implementing a ‘two-tier’ tax deal – because it exempts Indian migrants from National Insurance payments. Opposition leader Kemi Badenoch said she had declined to...
Opposition parties have criticised the new UK-India trade deal, saying it could undercut British workers. One aspect of the free trade agreement, which Labour says will be worth £5bn a year to the UK, is extending an exemption on national insurance contributions (Nics) from one to three years. Known as the double contribution convention, this...