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UK foreign policy

  • Tuesday, 15 April, 2025
    US-UK relations
    JD Vance predicts ‘good chance’ of US-UK trade agreement

    US vice-president says Trump administration is ‘working very hard’ with Starmer government on tariffs

    JD Vance is speaking at a podium while Donald Trump looks on during a ceremony on the south lawn of the White House
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    British Steel Ltd
    UK government secures raw materials for British Steel furnaces

    China warns against politicising crisis at Scunthorpe plant after ministers step in to take control

    British Steel’s plant in Scunthorpe
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    Simon Fraser
    Britain should embrace European and other middle powers

    With the US and China facing off in a tariff war, the time has come for the UK to pivot

    France’s President Emmanuel Macron and Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer
  • Sunday, 13 April, 2025
    Hong Kong
    British MP denied entry to Hong Kong

    Wera Hobhouse’s ejection ‘appears linked to her criticism of Beijing’, says international human rights alliance

    Wera Hobhouse sits at a table working on a laptop
  • Saturday, 12 April, 2025
    Camilla Cavendish
    Starmer’s opportunity to ride the Trump rollercoaster

    A big question hanging over Britain’s prospects is whether the prime minister can grow on the job

    Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves sit in a rollercoaster car as it nears the top of a mount
  • Thursday, 10 April, 2025
    Head of British military makes first Beijing visit in 10 years

    Trip by Tony Radakin announced only by China’s government amid strained Sino-American relations

    Admiral Sir Tony Radakin
  • Thursday, 10 April, 2025
    Robert Shrimsley
    So much for the Trump Brexit dividend

    The US president’s tariffs on UK cars and other exports reveal the hollow promise of global Britain

    Ellie Foreman-Peck illustration of a hand extending from a UK flag to shake an equivalent US-flag hand.
  • Wednesday, 9 April, 2025
    US-UK relations
    Starmer shifts focus in US trade talks to cutting 25% tariff on UK cars

    Prime minister admits he does not know if Trump can be persuaded to scrap 10% levy on all imports

    British Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks next to British Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves
  • Monday, 7 April, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    Starmer vows not to raise taxes despite Trump’s tariffs

    Prime minister says he will ‘seize the opportunity’ to make the economy more secure

    Keir Starmer
  • Sunday, 6 April, 2025
    Israel blocks two UK MPs from entering country

    British foreign secretary says treatment of Yuan Yang and Abtisam Mohamed is ‘unacceptable and counter-productive’

    Portrait photos of Labour MPs Abtisam Mohamed, left, and Yuan Yang
  • Friday, 4 April, 2025
    UK trade
    UK pushes back on Trump’s claim Britain is ‘happy’ with 10% tariff

    Country seeks improved trade deal with US after rate applied to British imports

    A Jaguar Land Rover factory
  • Friday, 4 April, 2025
    Political Fix podcast38 min listen
    Trump’s trade war: trouble ahead for Britain

    Plus: UK growth tactics under the microscope

  • Thursday, 3 April, 2025
    China ‘optimistic’ about deeper UK financial co-operation

    Vice-minister Liao Min speaking as renminbi green bond launched in London

    Liao Min
  • Thursday, 3 April, 2025
    UK economy
    UK consults business on retaliation against Trump tariffs

    Starmer pledges to redouble efforts to strike trade deal with the US

    Keir Starmer speaking in the House of Commons on Wednesday
  • Wednesday, 2 April, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    Starmer vows ‘cool-headed’ response to Trump tariffs

    UK prime minister tells MPs a trade war is ‘in nobody’s interests’

    Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaking during Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons, London, on Wednesday
  • Tuesday, 1 April, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    Starmer braced for Trump tariffs as UK seeks better outcome than EU

    Prime minister still hopes to secure a trade deal with the US president

    Sir Keir Starmer
  • Tuesday, 1 April, 2025
    Trump signs off Chagos Islands deal between UK and Mauritius

    Agreement has security implications for joint military base with US on Indian Ocean archipelago

    Aerial view of Diego Garcia, the largest atoll in the Chagos Islands archipelago
  • Tuesday, 1 April, 2025
    ExplainerTrump tariffs
    What price will the UK pay for a trade deal with Donald Trump?

    Sir Keir Starmer may have to make concessions on Britain’s digital services tax and agriculture

    Montage shows Donald Trump against pictures of mackerel, Jaguar Land Rover cars, a circuit board and some pills
  • Monday, 31 March, 2025
    US-UK relations
    Starmer briefed Trump about arrests over alleged vandalism at Scottish golf course

    US president describes three people accused of painting pro-Palestinian messages at Turnberry resort as ‘terrorists’

    An image released by protest group Palestine Action showing red paint splattered on the walls of a building at Turnberry golf course in Scotland
  • Monday, 31 March, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    Starmer’s hopes wane for UK exemption from US tariffs

    Britain has pushed for carve-out ahead of ‘liberation day’ on Wednesday

    Keir Starmer
  • Sunday, 30 March, 2025
    Brexit
    Officials hopeful Brussels summit will pave way to UK-EU defence pact

    Row over fish quotas to arise at post-Brexit reset talks on May 19

    A fisherman sorts through the mackerel catch on board a trawler off the coast of Ouistreham, northwestern France
  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
    US-UK relations
    UK carmakers back Starmer’s no-tariff approach to Trump

    Auto groups told ministers on Friday they wanted more support for the sector domestically

    Employees work on a Range Rover Sport SUV using robotic arms at Tata Motors Ltd.’s Jaguar Land Rover vehicle manufacturing plant in Solihull, U.K
  • Thursday, 27 March, 2025
    War in Ukraine
    Europe’s reassurance force in Ukraine to take shape in 3-4 weeks, says Macron

    Military officials from France and UK to travel to Kyiv soon, says French president

    Emmanuel Macron greets Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
  • Tuesday, 25 March, 2025
    EU foreign policy
    France and UK now leaders of hard power in Europe, says Czech PM

    Petr Fiala says power balance is shifting in response to Russian threat and US pressure

    Czech prime minister Petr Fiala sitting on a sofa in December 2024
  • Monday, 24 March, 2025
    Labour party UK
    New poll shows risks for Starmer over spending choices

    Most Labour voters believe protecting welfare is more important than boosting UK defence budget

    Montage shows Keir Starmer against a backdrop of the MoD logo, a disability sign and polling data
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