A group of five diplomats from the U.S. State Department were recently sent on a fact-finding mission in March to Britain to meet with pro-life activists who have been arrested for silently praying outside abortion clinics in the UK, The Telegraph reports.
The announcement of trade deal with a ‘big and highly-respected country’ (believed to be the UK) on Thursday morning is significant not just in itself but because Trump added the suggestion that this will be ‘the first of many’.
On what became known as ‘Liberation Day’, Trump unveiled a package of reciprocal tariffs across the world in an attempt to address the US’s trillion-dollar trade deficit.
As Donald Trump’s policies on tariffs keep shifting, leaving countries scrambling to react, there has been some good news for Keir Starmer and the Labour government.
…can we really believe it will happen?
It seems Trump Derangement Syndrome has reached fever pitch again. While guffaws abound in the media at the absurdity of inflicting tariffs on islands inhabited only by penguins, we the readers continue to be treated as wide-eyed children to pictures of grown men crying at trading desks.
Britain’s government is hoping to reach a last-minute post-Brexit trade agreement with Washington to avoid — or at least mitigate — more tariffs set to be announced on Wednesday by US President Donald Trump.
Fundamentally, Trump wants to do a deal with the UK. The man who wrote The Art of the Deal is on the international stage to be a leader, but he understands the complexities of ensuring that his own country is looked after first.
IN AN extraordinary address at the Munich Security Conference, US Vice President JD Vance warned that the greatest threat to Western democracies was not external aggression but the erosion of free speech within their own societies. Britain, he argued, was leading the charge in policing thought, with European nations following close behind.
THE White House has been eager to emphasise the rapidity with which Donald Trump has hit the ground running. Four days into the 47th US Presidency, the White House evaluated its first 100 hours as ‘wasting no time delivering on the promises he made to the American people.
If Labour and the Conservatives want to reassert their traditional dominance they could do worse than to look across the Atlantic and try to demonstrate that they too can get something, anything, done.
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