Jason Groves

November: Ed Miliband bans new coal mines in the UK - including new coking mine in Cumbria - to ‘send a signal to the world’ April: Jonathan Reynolds in crisis talks to buy coking coal from abroad to keep open the UK’s last blast furnaces https://t.co/swRbmeAKCJ

Keir Starmer, announcing plans for a new theme park, gives an insight into his last nine months: 'People said government would be a rollercoaster - I can testify to that'

Former equalities chief Trevor Phillips scathing about ministers' refusal to hold inquiry into grooming gangs operating mainly in Labour areas: 'It is so obviously political. People in govt... who are in other ways completely decent people, should really be ashamed of themselves'

Times Radio @TimesRadio

“I cannot tell you how cross I am about it.” The government's response to grooming gangs is "utterly, utterly shameful”, says Sir Trevor Phillips, former chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission. 🔴 Listen to @TrevorPTweets from 1pm: https://t.co/ElNHhIYcEN https://t.co/hyiA0JiTIc

Culture Sec Lisa Nandy says ministers are ‘very confident’ they can sign a trade deal with Donald Trump

Starmer confirms Labour will 'definitely' lower the voting age to 16. Says the 'sky didn't fall in' when it was introduced in Scotland. Also backs more political education in schools but says it should focus on citizenship rather than 'pure political indocrination'

Starmer hints at frustration over French demands to open up the UK's fishing grounds in return for a defence and security pact, but adds: 'I'm not going to be tempted into inflammatory language'

Grilling latest: Labour's Debbie Abrahams tells Starmer: 'Your point is very well made, Prime Minister...'

BBC Politics @BBCPolitics

PM Keir Starmer is being grilled by MPs on growth, welfare, health, and defence Follow live ⬇️

Rachel Reeves suggests ministers remain concerned that Trump could levy higher tariffs on pharmaceuticals, saying the 'additional tariffs on cars, steel and potentially life sciences pose a real challenge to our country'

Rachel Reeves tells MPs that Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey has assured her this morning that the UK banking system remains 'resilient' despite global turmoil

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Jason Groves @JasonGroves1

Has Trump blinked? White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett floats the idea of 90-day tariff pause

Has Trump blinked? White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett floats the idea of 90-day tariff pause

Keir Starmer says he will 'double down' on Net Zero rules despite the economic crisis: 'I see Net Zero as a real opportunity - there is a global race on for the jobs of the future. I don't think now is the time to step aside from that race - now is the time to double down'

Tory frontbencher Richard Fuller taking a *very* different line from his leader, telling @TimesRadio: 'Any MP on an official trip should be welcomed'

Hugo Gye @HugoGye

Kemi Badenoch backs the right of Israel to block two British MPs from entering the country. She tells Sky Labour MPs have engaged in "conspiracy theories" over Israel so she is "not surprised" by the decision its government made.

Kemi Badenoch in a tangle over whether the Trump administration is a reliable ally: 'I'm not going to pass commentary or speculate on whether they are or are not a reliable ally' #bbclaurak

Treasury chief sec Darren Jones tells @SkyNews the Trump tariff outcome which saw the UK hit with half the rate of the EU is a 'Brexit dividend', adding: 'I would struggle to find others, but it is one... it's good'

NEW: British digger firm JCB announces it is going to double the size of a new factory in Texas to one million square feet in the wake of Trump's tariff announcement

The govt's 'long list' of products for possible retaliatory tariffs on the US is *very* long - 417 pages covering everything from tailors' dummies to rollercoasters and even 'live bees'. Basically everything https://t.co/HKTNGZkyfq