LONDON — The U.K. government on Friday called an emergency weekend Parliament session to pass legislation aimed at saving the country’s last factory that makes steel directly from raw materials, a move widely called for since U.S. President Trump imposed tariffs on imported steel. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said lawmakers are being asked to return on…
Britain became a byword for self-inflicted economic harm and instability after Brexit and former Prime Minister Liz Truss’s calamitous tax cuts. But now, the country sees an opportunity to serve as a haven from the trade war that is rattling markets and the global economy. Last week, President Trump limited the U.S. tariffs on Britain…
President Trump’s self-proclaimed “liberation day,” in which he announced across-the-board tariffs on the United States’ trading partners, carries an echo of another moment when an advanced Western economy threw up walls around itself. Like Brexit, Britain’s fateful vote nearly nine years ago to leave the European Union, Mr. Trump’s tariffs struck a hammer blow at…
After all that — the chummy Oval Office meeting, the extraordinary royal invitation, the paeans to the “special relationship” — Britain and its solicitous prime minister, Keir Starmer, still got swept into President Trump’s tariffs, along with the European Union and other major American trading partners. Mr. Trump imposed his basic tariff of 10 percent…
Norway will seek to negotiate with the United States, the Norwegian prime minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, told the public broadcaster NRK on Thursday. Trump announced a 15 per cent tariff on goods imported to the US from Norway. “This is bad news, it is very serious,” Støre told NRK. “There is an opening for negotiations…
The UK was given a “special rate” on tariffs thanks to Brexit, an adviser to Donald Trump has said Seb Gorka, a White House adviser on counterterrorism, said the tariff on British goods could “improve”. “After Brexit, you’ve reaffirmed your independence, and I think that is being proven today by the special rate that has…
Just Stop Oil, the British environmental activist group known for attention-grabbing protests — including throwing tomato soup at famous artworks and spraying orange powder on Stonehenge — said it was ending such actions after a final protest in London next month. The group said on Thursday that it had achieved its primary goal of preventing…
European leaders will convene in Paris on Thursday to shore up support for Ukraine, a “coalition of the willing” that wants to help the war-torn country fight back against Russia despite wavering American commitment, and safeguard an eventual peace. France and Britain have been spearheading those efforts, which led to a first meeting in Paris…
A gleaming new data center sits less than half a mile from the electric substation where a fire plunged Heathrow Airport into darkness last week. The data center’s own power was also cut that day. But no one who relied on it would have noticed, thanks to a bank of batteries and backup generators designed…
With a staccato burst, a horn sounded in the control room of the H.M.S. Vanguard, sending the crew of the nuclear-armed Royal Navy submarine to battle stations. The voice of the commanding officer crackled over the intercom. “Set condition 1SQ,” he said, ordering its battery of ballistic missiles to be readied for launch. It was…