Enterprise secretary Peter Kyle dismisses Trump’s declare unlawful migration ‘destroys international locations from inside’
Good morning. Donald Trump has gone, however his voice and his influence haven’t. Though Keir Starmer received by their joint press convention with out mishap, the president’s feedback at Chequers about unlawful migration are being reported this morning very prominently – partly as a result of they resonate with the massive chunk of political opinion within the UK inclined to agree.
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For Trump, who he appears to evaluate success nearly solely by how a lot media consideration he can command, it is a triumph.
Peter Kyle, the enterprise secretary, was on the media spherical for the federal government this morning and inevitably he was requested about this. No 10 has a minor sliver of fine information on small boats this morning – a second particular person has been returned to France underneath the “one in, one out” deal.
However interviewers wished to know what Kyle thought of Trump’s feedback. At Chequers the president claimed unlawful migration “destroys international locations”. Trump mentioned:
I believe your scenario could be very comparable. You’ve gotten folks coming in and I instructed the prime minister I might cease it, and it doesn’t matter when you name out the army, it doesn’t matter what means you utilize
It destroys international locations from inside and we’re really now eradicating plenty of the those that got here into our nation.
Requested on ITV’s Good Morning Britain if he agreed with Trump about this, Kyle replied:
No. What I do imagine is that unlawful migration is one thing that’s impacting our politics right here within the UK. It’s one thing that the British public count on this authorities to get a grip on.
That’s the reason immediately, when now we have the second flight taking off with a migrant who doesn’t have the precise to remain right here being returned as a part of the brand new returns settlement with France, it is a pilot. That is one thing we’re trialling.
You may see that we’re pushing the boundaries of the legislation, however we’re straining on the bit to do it. If now we have to alter the legislation, we are going to change the legislation, as you’ve seen with this authorities as properly.
Right here is the agenda for the day.
Morning: Peter Kyle, the enterprise secretary, and Liz Kendall, the science secretary, attend an occasion in London to debate the “tech prosperity deal” with the US.
Morning: David Lammy, the justice secretary and deputy PM, visits a jail in London.
10am: Peer begin the second day of the second studying debate on the assisted dying invoice.
2pm: Hilary Benn, the Northern Eire secretary, and Simon Harris, the Irish deputy PM, unveil plans for unveil a brand new framework to take care of the legacy of the NI Troubles in Belfast.
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UK poised to recognise Palestinian statehood, as ballot recommend Britons in favour by 44% to 18%
The UK is making ready to recognise the state of Palestine imminently, after Israel failed to fulfill situations that may have postponed the historic step, together with a ceasefire in Gaza, Patrick Wintour studies.
YouGov has relased polling immediately suggesting that Britons are in favour of this by greater than two to at least one, though a big minority of individuals don’t have a view.
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Well being unions inform Streeting they will not participate in pay evaluation physique course of for 2026/27
Well being unions have introduced they won’t participate within the subsequent pay evaluation physique course of for 2026/27, PA Media studies. PA says:
The unions are calling on the federal government to press on with promised direct talks as a substitute to ship pay awards on time.
The 14 unions representing employees on “agenda for change” contracts inside the NHS have written to well being secretary Wes Streeting urging him to honour a dedication made final yr to deal with the issues within the pay system they are saying are harming staffing and morale.
Unions say these talks ought to now be widened to incorporate the headline pay award for 2026, which might have to be determined early subsequent yr whether it is to be paid on time in April, as ministers have dedicated to do.
Unions say employees belief and confidence within the present pay course of, involving a “time-consuming” pay evaluation physique (PRB), has hit all-time low and a extra environment friendly method is required for the approaching yr.
Meaning setting apart the PRB course of and specializing in talks backed by adequate funding from ministers to permit a deal to be reached, the unions say.
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US and UK to renew talks on attainable reductions in tariffs on Scotch whisky
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Severin Carrell is the Guardian’s Scotland editor.
The US and UK governments are to renew talks on eradicating or lowering Donald Trump’s 10% tariff on Scottish whisky subsequent week, after the 2 sides failed to succeed in settlement through the US president’s state go to.
A supply mentioned the business has been reassured progress had been made within the discussions, with officers as a result of focus particularly on the problem, after months of intense lobbying and diplomacy geared toward carving out a selected deal on the £970m commerce.
Regardless of the looming battle between Labour and the Scottish Nationwide celebration over who will win subsequent yr’s Holyrood elections, the UK and Scottish governments have been carefully coordinating their efforts.
John Swinney, the Scottish first minister and SNP chief, was amongst the company on the state banquet for Trump at Windsor fortress – an look which was attacked by critics from inside the SNP, and considered one of Nicola Sturgeon’s former aides.
The SNP MP Chris Regulation posted after which deleted a publish on X claiming that the primary minister’s attendance was successfully “conceding that it’s acceptable to help” an Israeli genocide in Gaza – a cost Israel denies, and which Swinney rebuffed.
Swinney confirmed throughout first minister’s questions on Thursday he had once more lobbied Trump at Windsor fortress, constructing on a 50-minute assembly he had with the president on the White Home earlier this month, together with then British ambassador Peter Mandelson, the place the closely-linked US and UK liquor commerce was uppermost.
Swinney instructed MSPs:
I used to be making representations on behalf of the business – I used to be not negotiating a commerce deal; that’s the correct duty of the UK authorities.
[I] will proceed to have interaction with the intention to make sure that I ship the kind of zero-for-zero association that the US whiskey business and the Scotch whisky business are searching for, as a result of I believe that that makes financial sense on either side of the Atlantic.
“Zero for zero” refers back to the reality the UK doesn’t have any tariffs on imports of US whiskey and bourbon and in addition permits tariff-free entry to the $300m price of whiskey barrels imported every year from Republican states comparable to Kentucky and Louisiana to mature Scottish whisky.
Scottish producers have already laid off employees, and halted distilling, due to the influence the ten% tariffs have had on US exports, which has a knock-on impact with US barrel gross sales and manufacturing.
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Trump stays non-committal on UK getting metal commerce concessions, saying US ‘making lot of cash’ from tariffs
With Donald Trump now in another country, there’s a debate within the UK about whether or not all of the sucking up and crimson carpet remedy was really price it. Keir Starmer appears to suppose so. However there have been two issues that occurred after he left UK soil that implied the UK appeal offensive might need had much less influence that folks hoped.
At his press convention at Chequers yesterday Trump didn’t settle for the concept that the US comic Jimmy Kimmel was having his present cancelled simply because he had mentioned one thing that offended the White Home. It was “unhealthy scores” that defined his sacking, Trump claimed. However, chatting with reporters on Air Power One on his method residence, Trump deserted all qualms about sounding like a dictator and brazenly declared that networks that cowl him negatively needs to be punished for it.
And, as Trump was flying residence, Fox Information broadcast an interview with him that was recorded when it was at Chequers. The interviewer, Martha Maccallum, put it to Trump that the commerce take care of the UK was “nonetheless not finalised”. She was referrring to the truth that the UK remains to be pushing for concessions on metal and aluminium tariffs.
However Trump pushed again. He mentioned the deal was “a finished deal”, though he acccepted that the UK want to make “changes”.
Requested if he was open to that, he replied:
I like ‘em. However we’re making some huge cash [from tariffs].
Trump then implied that he wished to assist. The UK was having “plenty of problem”, he mentioned. However he remained non-committal.
Presumably this got here as no shock to Sarah Smith, the BBC’s north America editor. At Chequers, she says she requested Susie Wiles, Trump’s chief of employees, if the state go to would have any influence on the UK’s means to affect US coverage on issues like commerce. Wiles replied: “None in any respect. President Trump will all the time do what is true for America.”
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Reform UK receives £100,000 donation from design agency that confronted winding-up petition
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has acquired a £100,000 donation from a design and structure agency that confronted a winding-up petition from the tax authorities earlier this yr, Rowena Mason studies.
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Friends resume second studying debate on assisted dying invoice
Friends have simply their debate on the second studying of the assisted dying invoice. There are 75 of them down to talk (the talking checklist is right here), and there’s a reside feed right here.
The invoice has handed the Commons and, whereas friends take the view that they’re entitled to amend Commons laws, they typically function on the premise that it isn’t their job to dam handed by elected MPs.
However it is a personal member’s invoice, not a authorities invoice enacting a manifesto dedication, and a few friends suppose they they’ve plenty of latitude by way of how far they’ll “amend” the laws that emerged from the Commons.
The Hansard Society has produced a superb briefing on the present state of play, and what we will count on from the talk immediately.
I received’t be masking the talk intimately, however I’ll cowl any highlights, and the results of any votes, which ought to come at about 4pm.
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Share your views on the Corbyn/Sultana ‘Your Social gathering’ break up
As Aletha Adu studies, a break up has opened between Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana within the formation of their new leftwing celebration, with the previous Labour chief confirming a referral to the Info Commissioner’s Workplace over an unauthorised membership portal promoted by his co-leader.
Right here is Peter Walker’s evaluation.
And right here is an extract.
It’s one thing of a political cliche that leftwing politicians are liable to splits, and never solely with out fact, even when this does ignore the Conservatives’ current fondness for toppling leaders and forming themselves into more and more atomised “tribes”.
However the seemingly irreconcilable break up demonstrates that, very similar to a political proper wherein Conservatives MPs are defecting to Reform and a few Reform MPs are quitting to go solo, the British left is much less a coherent power than a semi-allied assortment of micro-groups, typically with competing pursuits.
On high of what is perhaps known as conventional Corbynism, with its left-tilted economics and populist tendencies, we now have the extra explicitly Gaza-focused independents, an growing menace to Labour fuelled by public disquiet about Israel’s actions.
We want to hear from Guardian readers about what they give thought to all this.
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British and Irish governments to current new Troubles legacy proposals
The British and Irish governments are to announce a brand new framework to take care of the legacy of Northern Eire’s Troubles, in an effort to resolve a problem that has bedevilled politics within the area and relations between London and Dublin, Rory Carroll and Lisa O’Carroll report.
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Kyle brushes off Trump’s recommendation to make use of army to regulate UK borders
In an interview with BBC Breakfast, Peter Kyle, the enterprise secretary, was additionally requested if the federal government agreed with Donald Trump about involving the army to deal with unlawful migration.
Kyle mentioned there was already an possibility for army involvement (which is true – though not in the best way Trump was suggesting). Kyle mentioned:
Effectively, what he advised was the army are used, however now we have the UK Border Power that’s now established and has been strengthened and bolstered and have new powers underneath this authorities.
The Navy really does have a working relationship with the UK Border Power, and the Navy could be known as upon if wanted.
So we do have the practical relationship that we’d like between our army and preserving our borders protected and safe however what we actually want in the mean time is our army centered on all of these actually key points world wide, instantly referring to our nationwide defence.
UPDATE: Right here is Kiran Stacey’s story on Kyle’s feedback.
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Enterprise secretary Peter Kyle dismisses Trump’s declare unlawful migration ‘destroys international locations from inside’
Good morning. Donald Trump has gone, however his voice and his influence haven’t. Though Keir Starmer received by their joint press convention with out mishap, the president’s feedback at Chequers about unlawful migration are being reported this morning very prominently – partly as a result of they resonate with the massive chunk of political opinion within the UK inclined to agree.
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For Trump, who he appears to evaluate success nearly solely by how a lot media consideration he can command, it is a triumph.
Peter Kyle, the enterprise secretary, was on the media spherical for the federal government this morning and inevitably he was requested about this. No 10 has a minor sliver of fine information on small boats this morning – a second particular person has been returned to France underneath the “one in, one out” deal.
However interviewers wished to know what Kyle thought of Trump’s feedback. At Chequers the president claimed unlawful migration “destroys international locations”. Trump mentioned:
I believe your scenario could be very comparable. You’ve gotten folks coming in and I instructed the prime minister I might cease it, and it doesn’t matter when you name out the army, it doesn’t matter what means you utilize
It destroys international locations from inside and we’re really now eradicating plenty of the those that got here into our nation.
Requested on ITV’s Good Morning Britain if he agreed with Trump about this, Kyle replied:
No. What I do imagine is that unlawful migration is one thing that’s impacting our politics right here within the UK. It’s one thing that the British public count on this authorities to get a grip on.
That’s the reason immediately, when now we have the second flight taking off with a migrant who doesn’t have the precise to remain right here being returned as a part of the brand new returns settlement with France, it is a pilot. That is one thing we’re trialling.
You may see that we’re pushing the boundaries of the legislation, however we’re straining on the bit to do it. If now we have to alter the legislation, we are going to change the legislation, as you’ve seen with this authorities as properly.
Right here is the agenda for the day.
Morning: Peter Kyle, the enterprise secretary, and Liz Kendall, the science secretary, attend an occasion in London to debate the “tech prosperity deal” with the US.
Morning: David Lammy, the justice secretary and deputy PM, visits a jail in London.
10am: Peer begin the second day of the second studying debate on the assisted dying invoice.
2pm: Hilary Benn, the Northern Eire secretary, and Simon Harris, the Irish deputy PM, unveil plans for unveil a brand new framework to take care of the legacy of the NI Troubles in Belfast.
If you wish to contact me, please publish a message beneath the road when feedback are open (usually between 10am and 3pm BST in the mean time), or message me on social media. I can’t learn all of the messages BTL, however when you put “Andrew” in a message geared toward me, I’m extra prone to see it as a result of I seek for posts containing that phrase.
If you wish to flag one thing up urgently, it’s best to make use of social media. You may attain me on Bluesky at @andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social. The Guardian has given up posting from its official accounts on X, however particular person Guardian journalists are there, I nonetheless have my account, and when you message me there at @AndrewSparrow, I’ll see it and reply if obligatory.
I discover it very useful when readers level out errors, even minor typos. No error is just too small to right. And I discover your questions very attention-grabbing too. I can’t promise to answer to all of them, however I’ll attempt to reply to as many as I can, both BTL or generally within the weblog.
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