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  • Trump dismisses parliamentary recall idea and praises Starmer’s Brexit efforts

    US president says he likes PM ‘even though he’s a liberal’, lauding his handling of trade deal and progress since EU exit

    UK politics live – latest updates

    Donald Trump has said he does not want parliament to be recalled for his state visit to the UK, praising Keir Starmer, and saying that, despite being a liberal, the prime minister was straightening out a “sloppy” Brexit.

    Speaking in a rare interview with the BBC, the president said he had made trade agreements to lower tariffs on the UK specifically because of his affinity with Britain, saying he believed in its special relationship with the US.

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  • King Charles schedules Trump state visit for when UK parliament is in recess

    Buckingham Palace to host US president during party conferences removing chance of Commons address

    King Charles has invited Donald Trump for an unprecedented second state visit in September, scheduling the trip for three days when parliament is not sitting and removing the possibility of the US president addressing parliament.

    Buckingham Palace announced on Monday that Trump would come to the UK from 17-19 September, soon after the House of Commons rises for its traditional break for the annual party conferences.

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  • Trump’s ‘revenge tax’ could threaten foreign investment into US, analysts say

    Concerns raised that section 899 could backfire and also undermine dollar’s safe haven status

    Foreign investment into the US could be threatened by Donald Trump’s new “revenge” taxes, analysts have warned.

    A provision within the president’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act will allow the US to apply higher taxes on foreign individuals, businesses and investors connected to jurisdictions that impose “unfair foreign taxes” on US individuals and companies.

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  • British businessman accused of plotting to smuggle US military technology to China

    John Miller and Chinese national Cui Guanghai are facing extradition in connection with an FBI investigation

    A British businessman has been indicted in the US with attempting to traffic sensitive American military technology to China and silence a critic of the Chinese president.

    John Miller, 63, was named by US authorities at the weekend after his arrest in Serbia, where he is facing extradition in connection with an FBI investigation. The Mail on Sunday reported that he was from Tunbridge Wells, Kent.

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  • UK forging ahead with US trade talks, despite court block on Trump’s tariffs

    Exclusive: British officials hope to have deals covering cars, metals and aeroplane parts within weeks

    British officials are forging ahead in their trade talks with the US despite a recent court decision overturning many of Donald Trump’s tariffs, and hope to have a deals covering cars, metals and aeroplane parts in place within weeks.

    A team of British negotiators spent much of last week in Washington talking to their American counterparts about how to implement the deal was signed earlier this month, including how quickly it can be passed by parliament and Congress.

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  • Oil industry funded Girl Scouts and British Museum to boost image, evidence suggests

    BP has funded Washington’s National Gallery of Art, UK’s Royal Shakespeare Company and National Portrait Gallery

    Oil interests have funded cultural institutions such as museums, youth organizations and athletic groups in recent years, new research shows, in what appears to be a public relations effort to boost their image amid growing public awareness of the climate crisis.

    Top US fossil fuel lobby group the American Petroleum Institute (API) sponsored a 2017 workshop for the Pennsylvania Girl Scouts, featuring “activities that mimicked work in the energy industry”. Energy giant BP in 2016 sponsored Washington DC’s National Gallery of Art and continues to fund the British Museum in London. And in 2019, Shell sponsored the golf event the Houston Open for the 26th time.

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  • Donald Trump teases ‘major’ trade deal with ‘highly respected’ country expected to be UK – US politics live

    US president to make announcement in Oval Office at 10am ET that is expected to detail agreement on trade negotiations

    Good morning and welcome to the US politics live blog. I’m Tom Ambrose and I will be bringing you all the latest news lines over the next few hours.

    Donald Trump is expected to announce the framework of a trade agreement with the UK, according to two people familiar with the matter, after teasing a major announcement with a “big and highly respected, country.”

    A federal judge blocked the government from deporting migrants to Libya, amid reports that the US military planned to fly detained immigrants there this week.

    Donald Trump withdrew his nominee for surgeon general, Fox News contributor Dr Janette Nesheiwat, one day before her confirmation hearing. Later in the day, he nominated a wellness influencer close to RFK Jr to take her place.

    Columbia University called in the NYPD to clear a Gaza solidarity sit-in at a campus library, resulting in about 75 arrests.

    The Federal Reserve refused to lower interest rates as questions around the global economic outlook mount amid Trump’s erratic rollout of an aggressive trade strategy.

    Trump said there would be more information in the next day on a potential new proposal for a hostage release deal and ceasefire in Gaza.

    Stockholm’s city council rejected a “completely bizarre” demand from the US embassy in Sweden to abandon the city’s diversity, equity and inclusion policies.

    Voice of America, the US-funded broadcaster, will now run video provided by One America News, an openly partisan, virulently pro-Trump, far-right broadcaster.

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  • Barbie maker raises prices due to Trump tariffs as Ford warns of $1.5bn cost

    Toy company Mattel says it will reduce imports into the US from China to below 15% by 2026

    Barbie maker Mattel has said it will increase prices for some products in the US as Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs bump up costs for the toymaker.

    The US represents about half of Mattel’s global toy sales, and the company imports about 20% of its goods sold in the country from China. Mattel said it would reduce imports into the US from China to below 15% by 2026.

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  • Trump’s bid to host golf tournament in Britain could violate constitution, experts warn

    British government’s push for tournament to be at Trump-owned venue in Scotland is likely to seek favor with US

    The British government’s attempts to curry favor with Donald Trump by nudging golf executives to host one of the world’s most prestigious golf tournaments at a Scottish venue owned by the US president could ultimately lead to a violation of the US constitution, ethics experts have warned.

    The Guardian reported this week that officials in British prime minister Keir Starmer’s government have asked senior executives at R&A, which organizes the Open championship, whether they would host the golf championship at the Turnberry golf resort in 2028.

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  • Trump plans to ease tariff impact on US carmakers

    President will ease some duties on foreign parts in domestically manufactured cars, administration says

    Donald Trump plans to cushion the impact of his tariffs on US carmakers by easing some duties on foreign vehicle parts, his administration has said.

    “President Trump is building an important partnership with both the domestic automakers and our great American workers,” the commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, said in a statement provided by the White House.

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