Geraldine Scott
Senior Political Reporter at The Times
Senior political correspondent @thetimes | Ex @PA @yorkshirepost @EDP24 | Trustee @SPAJournalism | 50/50 blood to caffeine ratio
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thetimes.com | Ollie Cole |Geraldine Scott
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thetimes.com | Geraldine Scott |Alex Ralph |Aubrey Allegretti
Lord Mandelson, the British ambassador to Washington, is said to consider the issue a "big deal" for the UK and is "very focused" on winning a reprieve. At present, pharmaceuticals are exempt from a 10 per cent baseline tariff that Trump imposed on worldwide imports on "liberation day" this month. Britain is also subject to a 24 per cent tariff on cars, aluminium and steel, on which ministers are also hoping for a reprieve.
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thetimes.com | Max Kendix |Geraldine Scott
"As bins pile up and pressures mount, the country looks on as if this is the result of some uniquely Brummie dysfunction," Parker said. "But to treat it as some kind of localised failure - the result of poor choices or civic decline - is to ignore the bigger picture. "We've been caricatured as post-industrial relics, dismissed as too messy, too complex, too far gone. And now we're being painted as forever blighted by the bins.
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thetimes.com | Geraldine Scott |Aubrey Allegretti
If JD Vance is to be taken at face value then Sir Keir Starmer should be thrilled. Reading the news from his holiday in southern Europe that the American vice-president believes Britain can secure a "great" trade deal, the prime minister may feel vindicated in his approach to not react when President Trump launched his tariff onslaught. Anticipation is rising as to what Britain will be able to get out of a deal - and, crucially, when it will come.
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thetimes.com | Geraldine Scott |George Grylls
* Ed Miliband's net zero obsession left British Steel on brink of extinctionConstruction and rail would also be impacted if British Steel were to close down. National Rail, for example, gets 95 per cent of its steel from the company. Why has the government taken over the company? Jonathan Reynolds, the business secretary, said it had become clear that Jingye intended to cancel and refuse to pay for new materials, which would lead to the furnaces shutting down.
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