President Donald Trump boasted on Thursday of a new trade agreement that, on average, triples the taxes Americans will have to pay on British imports while signalling that higher tariffs will be the norm for agreements with other countries as well.
According to a chart used by Trump, the new trade deal with the United Kingdom will bring in $6 billion in “external revenue,” a term he and his administration dishonestly use to describe payments collected by U.S. Customs from American importers.
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The new 10% rate for nearly all goods, which was announced last month for countries all over the world, is three times higher than the 3.4% average rate Americans have paid for goods from Britain and Northern Ireland.
“It’s an anti-trade deal,” said Scott Lincicome, the director of economics at the Cato Institute’s Centre for Trade Policy Studies.
He and other economists said that Trump’s description of that 10% rate as the minimum tax level for all coming trade agreements effectively makes the United States a high-tariff country and will be a continuing drag on the economy.
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“That is largely in line with my fears,” said Jason Furman, a top economist in the Obama White House and now a professor at Harvard University. “Best case is emerge from Trump with a 12% average tariff rate on world. That is back to the 1940s and on par with Iran and Venezuela.”
Vice President JD Vance (left) and President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, May 8, 2025. Trump announced a trade framework with the U.K., hailing it as a “breakthrough” that will bring down barriers and expand market access for American imports.
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University of Michigan economist Justin Wolfers said, “A 10% across-the-board tariff is ridiculously high, and about five or ten times higher than any of our trading partners.”
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Trump said he agreed to lower his 25% tax on imported cars to 10% for the first 100,000 cars entering from the U.K. each year to help the British auto industry because it mainly produces high-end luxury cars. “They make a very small number of cars that are super luxury, and that includes Bentley and Jaguar,” he said.
In return, the UK has agreed to open its market to American beef and other agricultural products, Trump said. “We’re a very big country. We have a lot of beef. We’re a very big country,” he added.
Trump also continued pushing his repeated lies about how international trade works, claiming, again, that the United States “loses” money when Americans buy foreign goods and that other countries pay US tariffs.
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“That means we lose less money,” he said when asked during an Oval Office photo opportunity about shipping traffic falling off at US ports and dock workers and truckers fearing for their jobs. “Look, China was making over a trillion ― 1.1 trillion, in my opinion. You know, different numbers from 500 billion to 1 trillion or 1.1 trillion. And frankly, if we didn’t do business, we would have been better off.”
He then repeated a favourite falsehood of his over the years about the tariffs he imposed on Chinese imports during his first term: “China paid hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs, when I was president.”
In reality, foreign nations pay none of those tariffs. American importers do, predominantly manufacturers buying raw materials and retailers. Both pass along the import taxes in the form of higher prices paid by consumers.
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If all the tariff rates announced by Trump on his so-called “Liberation Day” on April 2 go into effect, it will cost American importers and consumers an extra $2.4 trillion in new taxes over a decade.
Andrew Griffith, the shadow trade secretary, said the agreement “will be welcomed by exporting businesses”.
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His intervention came just minutes after Badenoch said the UK had been “shafted” by Donald Trump.
Under the terms of the deal, import tariffs on British steel and aluminium being sold to America will be reduced from 25% to zero.
Tariffs on a maximum of 100,000 British cars being exported to the US will also be cut from 27.5% to 10%.
In addition, farmers in America and Britain will be able to sell beef into each other’s countries. However, the ban on hormone-treated beef coming into the UK will stay in place.
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Keir Starmer said it was a “historic” deal that will save thousands of British jobs.
But posting on X, Badenoch condemned the agreement, referring referring to a US government graphic showing that, overall, the UK had cut tariffs on American imports while America has trebled those on British goods.
Badenoch said: “When Labour negotiates, Britain loses. We cut our tariffs — America tripled theirs.
“Keir Starmer called this ‘historic.’ It’s not historic, we’ve just been shafted.”
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But Griffith said: “The reduction in tariffs announced today will be welcomed by exporting businesses. The ability to strike our own free deals is a Brexit benefit and I hope this moves us conclusively into an era where this government is committed to preserve that freedom.
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“Conservatives have been consistent in their support for trade agreements and the reduction of tariffs and today is the continuation of a process which started under the first Trump presidency.”
Labour leapt on the Tory disarray, posting on X: “Your own shadow trade secretary has rightly welcomed the deal Kemi Badenoch.
“Keir Starmer’s Labour government has negotiated and secured an historic UK-US trade deal. Kemi Badenoch can’t even negotiate with her own shadow cabinet.”
The Tory leader has criticised tax breaks for Indian workers in the UK which are a key part of the agreement brokered by Keir Starmer’s government.
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Under the arrangement, workers seconded to the UK from India-based companies will be exempt from paying National Insurance for three years.
The same arrangement will be put in place for British employees in India.
Badenoch has described it as a “two-tier” tax arrangement which will harm British workers by making it cheaper to employ those from India.
But the Financial Times reported that Badenoch agreed to a similar arrangement when she was trade secretary in the last Tory government, although a final deal was never agreed.
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One Indian official told the paper: “The Tories offered us two years but we said it wasn’t enough. They put it on the table. We wanted more than three, but the principle had already been conceded in return for some gives on our sides on services.”
Another said: “It’s amazing. It was on the table when she was trade secretary.”
Responding on X, Badenoch described the story as “fake news”.
She said: “This is total and utter rubbish. I never agreed to any such tax deal. The evidence couldn’t be clearer — I refused to sign the deal. As I have always said – No Deal is Better Than a Bad Deal.”
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Downing Street has insisted that similar tax arrangements are included in trade deals the UK has with around 50 other countries.
Despite the row, Badenoch did not raise the issue at prime minister’s questions today.
A Labour spokesperson said: “Kemi Badenoch has been caught out by her own hypocrisy again. She says one thing but she has done another.
“Instead of rallying behind the biggest trade deal since Brexit, she is so desperate to criticise the government she has attacked her own record.
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“It is her style to put party before country, so it is no wonder that she failed to deliver an agreement that will deliver an annual £4.8 billion boost for British businesses, create more jobs, raise wages by more than £2 billion a year and bring down prices for hard-pressed consumers.”
Yvette Cooper was not told about plans to give Indian workers in the UK tax breaks as part of a trade deal between the two countries.
Home Office officials did not deny claims the department was “blindsided” by the move amid concerns it could push up immigration to the UK.
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One said: “It’s tax policy, so was worked on in the Treasury.”
Labour MPs have also expressed their anger at the deal, which will exempt Indian workers seconded to the UK from India-based companies from paying National Insurance for three years.
One told HuffPost UK it had “gone down like a cup of cold sick” among those in Red Wall constituencies in the Midlands and north of England.
But another Labour MP said: “We need growth. This is one of the fastest growing economy in the world. The Tories talked about doing a deal but never delivered. This government has in less than 12 months.”
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Opposition parties said the deal will make it cheaper for employers to take on Indian workers rather than British ones.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said: “This government doesn’t give a damn about working people. The Labour Party has this time in a big, big way betrayed working Britain.”
In a post on X, she said: “I refused to sign this deal because: Tax refunds for Indians not available to us. Visa requests too high. Ceramics and aluminium industries would be screwed. When Labour negotiates Britain loses.”
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But Labour insisted similar tax arrangements are in place with more than 50 other countries, who offer the same deal for British workers abroad.
A spokesperson said: “This deal will provide an annual £4.8 billion boost for British businesses, create more jobs, raise wages by more than £2 billion a year and bring down prices for hard-pressed consumers.
“Kemi Badenoch is desperately seeking to distract from her failure with a made-up row about a standard tax agreement that will benefit British workers abroad.
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“Where the Conservatives failed to seal the deal, Labour is putting more money in working people’s pockets through our plan for change.”
Keir Starmer said the government had agreed “a landmark deal with India – one of the fastest growing economies in the world, which will grow the economy and deliver for British people and business”.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi described it as an “ambitious and mutually beneficial” trade agreement that will “catalyse trade, investment, growth, job creation, and innovation in both our economies”.
The subject came up during the meeting after the president was asked about his desires to make Canada part of the US and he responded: “I still believe that, but it takes two to tango.”
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Although Trump told the press he thought Canadians would benefit from being Americans, he seemed most obsessed with the idea that the shape of the United States would be more aesthetically pleasing if there wasn’t that straight line dividing the two countries.
“I’m a real estate developer at heart. … I’m a very artistic person,” Trump said, while claiming Canadians would pay “tremendously lower taxes” and have “free military” protections.
But Carney seemed immune to Trump’s pitch and insisted “there are some places that are never for sale,” and used the White House and Buckingham Palace as examples.
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Carney then declared that Canada is “not for sale,” “won’t be for sale, ever” and that “the opportunity is in the partnership and what we can build together.”
As you can see in the video below, Trump didn’t seem to know how to react to someone disagreeing with him to his face (which, to be fair, is understandable, considering the sycophantic behavior of his underlings).
Instead, he slumped his shoulders before giving a smirk to Carney’s explanation of how he sees the future Canada-US relationship.
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The president’s first comment after Carney’s line-in-the-sand remarks was a mumbled “That’s good,” and eventually “Never say never” about Canada becoming a state.
In a bold declaration, Canada’s newly elect prime minister Mark Carney told Trump right to his face in the Oval Office that “Canada is not for sale, won’t be for sale ever.” Trump replied, “never say never.” Trump is an embarrassment on the world stage.
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All Americans should be forced to watch this Trump press conference with Canadian PM Carney so they can see once and for all that they elected an absolute fucking moron. Trump supporters: he’s stupid. I know you don’t believe it, but he really is.
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In no uncertain terms, in front of the entire world, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney bitchslapped Trump regarding his desire to make Canada the 51st state: “… it’s not for sale. It won’t be for sale ever.” 😳👇 pic.twitter.com/0R0tLci40U
It’s funny how he just looks at the floor and nods how a naughty little bully brought to to the principal’s office suddenly turns into the quietest kid in class. Just nodding, hoping no one brings up Greenland again.
— penguins_against_trump (@FlippersUpNow) May 6, 2025
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Just nodding, hoping no one brings up Greenland again.— penguins_against_trump (@FlippersUpNow) May 6, 2025\n\n\n","options":{"_hide_thread":{"label":"Hide previous Tweet in conversation thread","value":true},"_maxwidth":{"label":"Adjust width","placeholder":"220-550, in px","value":""},"_theme":{"value":"","values":{"dark":"Use dark theme"}}},"provider_name":"Twitter","title":"penguins_against_trump on Twitter / X","type":"rich","url":"https://twitter.com/FlippersUpNow/status/1919791118771749337","version":"1.0"},"flags":[],"enhancements":{},"fullBleed":false,"options":{"theme":"news","device":"desktop","editionInfo":{"id":"uk","name":"U.K.","link":"https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk","locale":"en_GB"},"originalEdition":"uk","isMapi":false,"isAmp":false,"isAdsFree":false,"isVideoEntry":false,"isEntry":true,"isMt":false,"entryId":"681a66f1e4b0c2b15d9691d3","entryPermalink":"https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/trump-has-nothing-to-say-after-prime-minister-dismisses-his-canada-dreams_uk_681a66f1e4b0c2b15d9691d3","entryTagsList":"donald-trump,canada,mark-carney,@ai_seo_headline,@us_huffpost_now,@widget-imported","sectionSlug":"politics","deptSlug":null,"sectionRedirectUrl":null,"subcategories":"","isWide":false,"headerOverride":null,"noVideoAds":false,"disableFloat":false,"isNative":false,"commercialVideo":{"provider":"custom","site_and_category":"uk.politics","package":null},"isHighline":false,"vidibleConfigValues":{"cid":"60afc140cf94592c45d7390c","disabledWithMapiEntries":false,"overrides":{"all":"60b8e525cdd90620331baaf4"},"whitelisted":["56c5f12ee4b03a39c93c9439","56c6056ee4b01f2b7e1b5f35","59bfee7f9e451049f87f550b","5acccbaac269d609ef44c529","570278d2e4b070ff77b98217","57027b4be4b070ff77b98d5c","56fe95c4e4b0041c4242016b","570279cfe4b06d08e3629954","5ba9e8821c2e65639162ccf1","5bcd9904821576674bc55ced","5d076ca127f25f504327c72e","5b35266b158f855373e28256","5ebac2e8abddfb04f877dff2","60b8e525cdd90620331baaf4","60b64354b171b7444beaff4d","60d0d8e09340d7032ad0fb1a","60d0d90f9340d7032ad0fbeb","60d0d9949340d7032ad0fed3","60d0d9f99340d7032ad10113","60d0daa69340d7032ad104cf","60d0de02b627221e9d819408"],"playlists":{"default":"57bc306888d2ff1a7f6b5579","news":"56c6dbcee4b04edee8beb49c","politics":"56c6dbcee4b04edee8beb49c","entertainment":"56c6e7f2e4b0983aa64c60fc","tech":"56c6f70ae4b043c5bdcaebf9","parents":"56cc65c2e4b0239099455b42","lifestyle":"56cc66a9e4b01f81ef94e98c"},"playerUpdates":{"56c6056ee4b01f2b7e1b5f35":"60b8e525cdd90620331baaf4","56c5f12ee4b03a39c93c9439":"60d0d8e09340d7032ad0fb1a","59bfee7f9e451049f87f550b":"60d0d90f9340d7032ad0fbeb","5acccbaac269d609ef44c529":"60d0d9949340d7032ad0fed3","5bcd9904821576674bc55ced":"60d0d9f99340d7032ad10113","5d076ca127f25f504327c72e":"60d0daa69340d7032ad104cf","5ebac2e8abddfb04f877dff2":"60d0de02b627221e9d819408"}},"connatixConfigValues":{"defaultPlayer":"16b0ecc6-802c-4120-845f-e90629812c4d","clickToPlayPlayer":"823ac03a-0f7e-4bcb-8521-a5b091ae948d","videoPagePlayer":"05041ada-93f7-4e86-9208-e03a5b19311b","defaultPlaylist":"2e062669-71b4-41df-b17a-df6b1616bc8f"},"topConnatixThumnbailSrc":"https://img.connatix.com/235a7542-de25-4d78-ae86-ed7d3eae0381/1_th.jpg?crop=629:354,smart&width=629&height=354&format=jpeg&quality=60&fit=crop","customAmpComponents":[],"ampAssetsUrl":"https://amp.assets.huffpost.com","videoTraits":null,"positionInUnitCounts":{"buzz_head":{"count":0},"buzz_body":{"count":0},"buzz_bottom":{"count":0}},"positionInSubUnitCounts":{"article_body":{"count":9},"blog_summary":{"count":0},"before_you_go_content":{"count":0}},"connatixCountsHelper":{"count":1},"buzzfeedTracking":{"context_page_id":"681a66f1e4b0c2b15d9691d3","context_page_type":"buzz","destination":"huffpost","mode":"desktop","page_edition":"en-uk"},"tags":[{"name":"Donald Trump","slug":"donald-trump","links":{"relativeLink":"news/donald-trump","permalink":"https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/donald-trump","mobileWebLink":"https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/donald-trump"},"relegenceId":2789214,"section":{"title":"News","slug":"news"},"topic":{"title":"Donald Trump","slug":"donald-trump","overridesSectionLabel":false},"url":"https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/donald-trump/"},{"name":"Canada","slug":"canada","links":{"relativeLink":"news/canada","permalink":"https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/canada","mobileWebLink":"https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/canada"},"relegenceId":3856018,"url":"https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/canada/"},{"name":"mark carney","slug":"mark-carney","links":{"relativeLink":"news/mark-carney","permalink":"https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/mark-carney","mobileWebLink":"https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/mark-carney"},"relegenceId":4120092,"url":"https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/mark-carney/"}],"isLiveblogLive":null,"isLiveblog":false,"cetUnit":"buzz_body","bodyAds":["
It’s funny how he just looks at the floor and nods how a naughty little bully brought to to the principal’s office suddenly turns into the quietest kid in class. Just nodding, hoping no one brings up Greenland again.
— penguins_against_trump (@FlippersUpNow) May 6, 2025
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Trump trolls people and countries like he’ll never have to sit face to face with their leaders. It’s so awkward when they do. Carney isn’t having it.
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Reform UK has been accused of “sucking up to Moscow” after it announced that Ukraine flags will be among those banned from flying on council buildings run by the party.
Reform chairman Zia Yusuf said only Union Jacks and St. George’s Crosses will be flown from now on.
The party later clarified that Reform-run councils will still be allowed to fly their local county flags.
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All other flags – including the Ukraine national flags which have been flown from council buildings across the country since Russia’s invasion in 2022 – will be banned.
Yusuf announced the move on X days after the party took control of 10 local authorities following its success at the local elections.
He said: “Reform controlled English councils will move at speed to resolve that the only flags permitted to be flown on or in its buildings will be the Union Jack and the St George’s flag.
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Reform controlled English councils will move at speed to resolve that the *only* flags permitted to be flown on or in its buildings will be the Union Jack and the St George’s flag.
No other flags will be permitted to be flown on its flag-poles, balconies, reception desks or… pic.twitter.com/UngyJFgCh9
Reacting to the announcement, Mike Tapp, the Labour MP for Dover and Deal, said: “As VE Day reminds us, Britain has a proud history of working with allies to defeat dictators and tyrants.
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“It tells you all you need to know about Nigel Farage’s Reform that their very first act after winning elections is to ban the Ukrainian flag from our town halls, in this of all weeks.
“But while it is sickening, it should come as no surprise: Farage told us that Vladimir Putin is the world leader he most admires.
“Farage and Reform councillors should stop sucking up to Moscow and drop their ban on flying the Ukrainian flag immediately.”
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A Reform UK spokesman said: “Reform UK will proudly fly the Union Jack, St George’s Flag and county flags. Unlike the Tories and Labour, we are proud of our country and history.”
A Reform UK councillor has been suspended by the party just three days after being elected.
Donna Edmunds faces an investigation after it emerged she had previously vowed to defect to another right-wing party in the future.
She became one of Reform’s 677 new councillors when she was elected in Hodnet, Shropshire, on Thursday.
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But in a post on X today she said: “This morning I woke up to an email from Reform UK Head Office advising me that I have been suspended from the party ‘pending an investigation’. Why? Because I urged people here on X to lend Reform their support for the short term – for Thursday’s elections – even if they felt they couldn’t for the long term.
“According to Head Office ‘this has brought the party into disrepute and damaged the interests of the party’.”
She then went on to criticise the party for kicking out Rupert Lowe MP and ditching its former deputy leader, Ben Habib.
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Edmunds also shared a screengrab of a post she made on X last week in which she said: “I’m a Reform candidate. I’m waiting for Rupert and Ben to give us a real alternative and then I’ll defect. I’m far from being the only one.”
She added: “This campaign has been a difficult one. For every resident in my ward who supported Reform, I found another who wanted an alternative to the failed Tories and vindictive Labour, but couldn’t bring themselves to vote for a party who would behave so shamefully toward their own.”
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A Reform UK spokesman said: “The reason for her suspension is that she posted on social media that she intended to defect to another party. We will not comment further until the completion of the investigation.”
The House of Commons leader lost her composure during an appearance on Radio Four’s political debate programme Any Questions.
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It came after Reform UK campaigner Tim Montgomerie mentioned a Channel 4 documentary on the abduction and rape of vulnerable young girls by groups of men of mainly British-Pakistani backgrounds.
Powell interrupted to say: “Oh we want to blow that little trumpet now, do we? Let’s get that dog whistle out shall we, yeah?”
It didn’t take long for her comments to provoke a backlash on social media, with Reform and the Tories both piling in as well.
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A spokesman for Nigel Farage’s party said: “Lucy Powell’s abhorrent comments truly demonstrate how out of touch the Labour Party is.”
Of course, Powell’s remarks – for which she later issued an apology of sorts – would have ignited a fierce political row regardless of when she said them.
Labour has been heavily criticised for rejecting calls for a national inquiry into the scandal, preferring instead to promote investigations at a local authority level.
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But it was the fact that her outburst came just hours after Reform UK – which has campaigned heavily on the issue – had won the local elections in England that made them so politically toxic for Labour.
As well as taking hundreds of council seats off the Tories, the right-wing party also showed that they can pull off stunning victories in traditional Labour areas like Durham and Doncaster.
With Reform also breathing down Labour’s neck in many of the areas where the grooming scandal took place, Powell’s words could almost have been deliberately chosen to cause maximum reputational damage to her party.
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No wonder one senior figure in No.10 called them “appalling”.
According to The Sunday Times, education secretary Bridget Phillipson will be sacked at the next cabinet reshuffle, with Lisa Nandy also facing the axe along with her Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.
Senior Labour figures are now openly speculating that Powell’s neck is also on the chopping block.
“She shouldn’t be allowed on broadcast,” one told HuffPost UK, while another said: “What a car crash.”
For now at least, Downing Street appears to be backing Powell to ride out the storm.
Health secretary Wes Streeting offered up a stout defence of her on the broadcast round this morning, saying: “We all make mistakes. I’ve made mistakes in the past, I’m sure I’ll make mistakes in the future.
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“The important thing is when we make mistakes, we own it, we apologise. That’s exactly what Lucy has done.”
But it would not be a surprise if, come the reshuffle, Powell finds herself on the backbenches.
Margaret Thatcher had a phrase she often repeated when challenged on her strident adherence to her unapologetically right-wing economic principles.
“There is no alternative,” the former Conservative prime minister would say to those who pointed out the social unrest and industrial devastation her policies were causing.
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The initials of those four words led to Thatcher being given the nickname “Tina” by friend and foe alike.
She was rewarded with three election victories before finally being dumped when her MPs finally tired of her intransigence.
While he would not welcome the comparison, there is undoubtedly something Thatcheresque about Keir Starmer and his supporters’ response to Labour’s performance at the local elections.
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“I’ve seen it suggested that we just scrap the fiscal rules so we can borrow and spend more – that’s just a recipe for higher interest rates,” said one of the PM’s allies.
“There’s no easy solution, it’s just hard work.”
Although Labour did manage to cling on to the mayoralties in North Tyneside, Doncaster and the West of England, the overall picture for Labour was one of bitter disappointment.
Nowhere typified this more than Runcorn and Helsby, where Labour saw their 14,700 majority wiped out by Reform UK’s Sarah Pochin, albeit by just six votes.
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Meanwhile, Labour lost more than 100 councillors – most of them to Reform UK – confounding polling experts who had forecast they would make modest gains.
Nevertheless, the mood in 10 Downing Street is that the party must stick to the path it is currently on, regardless of the incoming fire.
“Because trust is so thin in politics we are taking all the downside because there is no upside to point to yet.””
– Labour source
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One senior party source told HuffPost UK: “If we’d got six more votes in Runcorn, on top of the three mayoral wins, I’d be feeling quite positive overall.
“We’re a year into a long-term project, we’ve had to do lots of tough stuff and people are giving us a chance to get it done. But those six votes in Runcorn make a big difference to the mood.”
Another insider said: “We get it, we understand it, we’ve got to deliver real, tangible change. For example, we are doing stuff to clean up rivers but we’ve had to put up water bills to do it. Because trust is so thin in politics we are taking all the downside because there is no upside to point to yet.”
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One cabinet minister pointed out that turning the country round takes time: “You can’t do it in an afternoon.”
But it was not hard to find Labour critics of the party hierarchy, however.
“I think national government needs to look and see what people are saying,” she said.
“I wrote [to Starmer] as soon as [scrapping] the winter fuel allowance was mooted and I said it was wrong.
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“The results tonight demonstrate that they need to be listening to the man, woman and businesses on the street and actually deliver for the people, with the people.”
The decision to increase National Insurance payments for employers, as well as slash disability benefits, were two more policies which had cost Labour votes, Jones said.
A former MP said the winter fuel allowance decision is coming up on doorsteps “time and time again”.
He said: “I think they’ve got to do something to show voters that we get it and we’re listening. Overturning the winter fuel policy would make a huge difference to how the government is perceived in the country.”
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Those on the left of the party also accused the PM of pandering to Reform and demanded an urgent change of direction.
“This really highlights how fragile Labour’s electoral coalition is”
– Chris Hopkins, political research director at Savanta
Neal Lawson, director of the campaign group Compass, said: “Labour are squandering their general election victory – people in Runcorn voted for change and instead Labour are giving them more of the same. It’s paving the way for Reform.
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“Labour need to understand that if people want Reform’s policies then they will vote for Reform – and if they can close the gap this much in 11 months, imagine what it might be in five years.
“What should terrify Labour strategists in Runcorn is that the Green vote went up – even though Green voters knew this might let Reform in. Labour is simply not progressive enough to win even tactical support.”
Simon Fletcher, who was campaigns and elections adviser to Starmer during his first year as opposition leader, told Byline Times: “Now we can see with the real clarity of votes at the ballot box what the consequences are of a Labour government that responds to the economy’s deep-seated problems with yet more cuts to pensioners’ winter fuel payments and attacks on disabled people.”
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Chris Hopkins, political research director at Savanta, said Labour’s strategy is understandable, but still represents a huge gamble.
“Labour have a really difficult job knowing what to do about Reform,” he said. “They could adopt a more populist right-leaning strategy, but they risk alienating core voters to the Lib Dems and Greens. This really highlights how fragile Labour’s electoral coalition is.
“It’s interesting that Starmer’s decision is to double down on the existing strategy; that probably makes sense as evidence of not panicking, and overly pivoting to worry about Reform, but it’s still a risk as reform are such an unknown quantity.”
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Labour figures are consoling themselves with the fact that, if anything, Kemi Badenoch had an even worse night than Starmer.
The Tories lost more than 500 councillors and a swathe of councils as they were caught in a Reform UK and Lib Dem pincer movement.
A Labour source said: “Reform have done well but the Tory vote has totally collapsed.
“The usual way back into government is to acknowledge what you got wrong, change and then put that change to the country. And if that failed, you at least had a base you could rely on. I think the Tories are beyond that.
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“Without a serious course correction they could actually fall to pieces. 150 years of the most successful party in the western world and they are on the verge of disappearing.”
A government minister said: “The big fight at the general election will be between Labour and whatever happens on the right. Are we seeing the demise of the Tories or will they fight back?”
One former Conservative cabinet minister said that after just six months as party leader, Badenoch is already on borrowed time.
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“She’s got a year to turn it around,” he said. “The one thing saving her right now is that there’s nobody else who could do it.”
Vice President JD Vance said on Thursday that the minerals deal the US signed with Ukraine is a sign of “good progress” but conceded the war is unlikely to end in the near future.
It comes after President Donald Trump stressed he wants to broker a peace agreement between the two countries.
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Trump had pledged to end the war within one day of getting sworn into office during his 2024 presidential campaign, but recently said he was merely exaggerating.
In an interview with Fox News, Vance praised his boss for getting the two sides to reveal their demands for ending the war, but said it will ultimately be up to Russia and Ukraine “to come to an agreement and stop this brutal, brutal conflict.”
“It’s not going anywhere,” Vance said. “It’s not going to end anytime soon, and I think for the Ukrainians, yes, of course, they’re angry that they were invaded. But are we going to continue to lose thousands and thousands of soldiers over a few miles of territory, this or that way? I hope both of them come to their senses.”
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While Vance seemed to acknowledge Russia was responsible for the war breaking out, he did not seem to share Kyiv’s concerns that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ambitions exceed Ukraine’s borders.
Meanwhile, the US and Ukraine signed the much-anticipated rare earth minerals deal this week following Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s face-to-face chat with Trump in Rome on Saturday. Kyiv hopes the minerals agreement will help maintain its long-term security as it continues to fight Russia.
Vance said the signing of the deal amounted to “good progress” and expressed optimism, but said it was hard to be confident that peace can be achieved, stressing that the US can only do so much to help the two countries come to a settlement.
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“That’s not something even President Trump can do for them,” Vance said.
Trump has previously said Russia and Ukraine were “very close to a deal.”
Meanwhile, Russia’s elite are reportedly worried that the minerals deal will give the US an incentive to side more closely with Ukraine in peace negotiations, according to The Washington Post.
Trump has embraced the Kremlin’s talking points on the war, but has recently issued some criticism of Putin over Moscow’s latest attack on Ukrainian cities, questioning whether the Russian leader is committed to stopping the conflict.
But Trump has also touted his relationship with Putin, claiming the Russian leader holds him in high regard.
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“Let’s say he respects me,” Trump told ABC News. “And I believe because of me he’s not gonna take over the whole” of Ukraine.
