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In response to President Donald Trump’s global tariffs, Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, said: ‘This is not just a short-term tactical exercise. It is the beginning of a new era.’ He wrote in the Sunday Telegraph: ‘We stand ready to use industrial policy to help shelter British business from the storm.’ The FTSE100 fell by 4.9 per cent in a day, its biggest such fall since 27 March 2020. The government published a 417-page list of US products upon which Britain could impose retaliatory tariffs after 1 May. Figures from the Office for National Statistics showed that, although in 2023 the UK imported £57.9 billion of goods from the US (10 per cent of all goods imports) and exported £60.4 billion’s worth (15.3 per cent of all goods exports), it exported £126.3 billion of services (27 per cent of all service exports) to the US, compared with service imports of £57.4 billion (19.5 per cent of all service imports). The Coventry-based Jaguar Land Rover said it would ‘pause’ all shipments to the US. The government tinkered with net-zero rules for vehicle-makers, whose import tariffs to the US had been put at 25 per cent. It also approved the expansion of London Luton airport, including a new terminal, and the Prime Minister signed a £50 billion agreement for Universal to build a theme park on an old brickworks near Bedford.
Russell Brand was charged with rape, indecent assault and sexual assault, charges relating to four women between 1999 and 2005. Dan Norris MP was arrested on suspicion of rape, child sex offences, child abduction and misconduct in a public office; he was suspended from the Labour party.
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