Global markets nose-dive as Trump’s tariff on UK products comes into effect April 5, 2025 Donald Trump’s 10 per cent tariff on UK products has officially come into force, with global stock markets plunging deeper into the red in response to the imposition of import taxes. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer is expected to spend the weekend speaking to foreign leaders about the tariffs, after calls with the prime ministers [...]
Starmer and Trump to continue trade talks ‘at pace’ March 31, 2025 Sir Keir Starmer and Donald Trump discussed “productive negotiations” to advance a UK-US trade deal and agreed they will “continue at pace” in a phone call on Sunday night, Downing Street has said. The UK is trying to negotiate an exemption from tariffs on imports into the US. Negotiations are said to be intense, with moves [...]
Trump condemns Putin as two killed in Russian strikes on Ukraine March 30, 2025 Donald Trump has hit out at Russian President Vladimir Putin for comments he made about the leader of Ukraine. The US president was speaking after Russian drones hit a military hospital, shopping centre and apartment blocks in Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv, killing two people and wounding dozens. In an interview with NBC News, he [...]
Justin Welby says he forgives abuser Smyth March 30, 2025 Former archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said he forgives serial abuser John Smyth as he repeated an apology to victims and told of the “deep sense of personal failure” he feels about the handling of allegations. The former most senior bishop in the Church of England, who resigned in November and stepped down officially in [...]
Government asks MP watchdog to review expenses rules March 30, 2025 Ministers will ask a Parliamentary watchdog to review some expenses claims after a Labour MP was able to claim £900 from the taxpayer in “pet rent”. Security minister Dan Jarvis insisted his colleague Taiwo Owatemi, a Government whip and the MP for Coventry North West, followed the rules when she made the expenses claim in [...]
Iran rejects direct negotiations with US after Donald Trump letter March 30, 2025 Tehran has rejected direct negotiations with the US in response to a letter from Donald Trump over its rapidly advancing nuclear programme, the president of Iran has said. The remarks from Masoud Pezeshkian represented the first official acknowledgement of how Iran responded to Trump’s letter. It also suggests that tensions may further rise between Tehran [...]
Raspberry Pi: Results in focus after London IPO March 30, 2025 Raspberry Pi is set to give an insight into demand for its new chips after the computer firm was thrust into the spotlight when it launched on the London stock market last year. The Cambridge-based business will publish its full-year financial results on 2 April. Rasperry Pi’s revenues soared by 61 per cent in the [...]
Yvette Cooper signals no progress made exempting UK from tariffs March 30, 2025 Home secretary Yvette Cooper has indicated that no progress has been made to exempt the UK from US president Donald Trump’s tariffs, adding that they could harm the entire world’s economy. Asked by Sky News’s Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips programme how damaging she thought the tariffs could be, the home secretary said: “In the [...]
Businesses face billions of extra costs as wages and tax to rise March 30, 2025 UK businesses are set to face a multibillion-pound wave of higher costs this week as higher wages and tax increases come into force. Retail and hospitality bosses have warned that higher labour costs and taxes are set to push up prices for customers across the UK. A raft of measures linked to the Labour government’s [...]
Elon Musk sells X to his own xAI for £25.5bn in all-stock deal March 29, 2025 Elon Musk has sold social media site X to his own xAI artificial intelligence company in a $33bn (£25.5bn) all-stock deal, the billionaire announced. Both companies are privately held, which means they are not required to disclose their finances to the public. Mr Musk said in a post on X that the move will “unlock immense potential by blending [...]
