Grant Shapps said the US president seemed to be ‘in cahoots’ with Vladimir Putin

Cabinet Office minister Nick Thomas-Symonds told MPs the Government is pursuing a new partnership with the EU which will make the UK ‘safer, more secure and more prosperous’.

But he is still more popular than Joe Biden, according to Ipsos survey

Public sector net borrowing rose to £151.9 billion in the year to the end of March - equal to £95,300 per household

Officials from Ukraine, US and the UK are meeting in London – but the talks will not be the high-level meeting of ministers originally envisaged

The latest YouGov poll showed Reform on 25%, up two points on last week, with the Conservatives on 20%, down one point

‘The US effective tariff rate surged past levels reached during the Great Depression,’ say the leading economists

Scotland Yard has already launched an investigation after seven statues were daubed with graffiti before thousands of trans rights protesters marched through central London

Lord Dannatt, former Chief of the General Staff, believes a peace pact is ‘not very close at all’

More than 2,520 children have been killed or injured in Putin’s war in Ukraine, United Nations children’s organisation UNICEF has said, with the real death toll likely to be higher that this UN-verified figure

The US President has ordered a probe into potential new tariffs on all US critical minerals imports

Vikram K Doraiswami stressed that his country wanted Indian companies to be able to move staff to Britain ‘more easily’ as part of an agreement, but their focus was on hiring locally

Tariffs on Britain’s pharmaceutical industry could deal a severe blow, potentially costing firms billions of pounds

Goldman Sachs has cut its estimate for automobile sales in the US for this year by nearly 1 million units

Industry minister Sarah Jones confirmed the shipment had been paid for and the rescue mission was being stepped up on Tuesday

The US vice-president dismissed as ‘absurd’ the suggestion from Ukraine’s president that he had somehow sought to ‘justify’ Putin’s invasion of Ukraine

Russian missiles hit the northern Ukrainian city of Sumy days ago, killing 34 people and injuring more than 110

Trade minister Douglas Alexander is currently in China seeking to drum up business deals

Investors are also piling into buying the Swiss franc and the yen while the US dollar has slumped amid the US president’s trade chaos

The move announced on Friday is the latest tit-for-tat retaliatory tariffs hike in a growing trade war between the two superpowers