Keir Starmer is under growing pressure from senior UK and EU figures to take a tougher stance against Donald Trump, as fears escalate that the US president is preparing to impose sweeping tariffs on British exports — a move that could spark a global trade war and severely damage the UK economy. British officials in London and Washington are racing to persuade the White House to soften its approach ahead of what Trump is calling...
Prosecutions of professionals who enable tax evasion have plummeted by at least 75 per cent over the past five years, according to new figures, prompting concerns that HMRC is failing to tackle the networks that support illegal tax activity. In 2023–24, fewer than five criminal cases were brought against enablers — individuals who knowingly help clients evade tax — down from 16 cases in 2018–19, which marked the peak of enforcement activity. Tax officials now...
Campaigners are urging UK police forces to take a far tougher stance on fraudsters, warning that scams have become a “penalty-free crime” amid a surge in reported fraud and high-profile global investigations. The call to action comes just days after the government announced it is working on an expanded fraud strategy in response to a 19 per cent rise in fraud reports last year, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics. The renewed...
President Donald Trump said Sunday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is trying to back out of a rare earth deal with the U.S., adding if he does that he is going to have ‘some problems.’ ‘I think Zelenskyy, by the way, he’s trying to back out of the rare earth deal, and if he does that, he’s got some problems – big, big problems,’ Trump said while speaking to reporters on Air Force One on...
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Even a casual reader of history will have noticed over the past many years that the antiseptic term Common Era (CE) has slowly but surely replaced the elegant Anno Domini (AD) as the marker of the time period that began 2,025 years ago in most historical works. Though at first glance this may appear to be a minor change, it most definitely is not, and given the...
Consumer spending in the United States rose in February but fell short of economists’ expectations, as households cut back on dining and travel while grappling with rising costs and economic uncertainty. Figures released by the US Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis showed that consumer spending climbed by 0.4 per cent last month. This followed a downwardly revised 0.3 per cent decline in January and was slightly below economists’ expectations of a 0.5 per cent...
Retailers are more optimistic about their profits and growth prospects than at any point in nearly a decade, according to new data from Lloyds Bank — signalling growing confidence in the UK economy despite continued fiscal pressures and global uncertainty. The bank’s latest Business Barometer, released on Monday, found that optimism among retailers surged in March to its highest level since August 2015. Sentiment in the sector jumped by seven points to 58 per cent...
President Donald Trump teased he might run for a third term, explaining to NBC News that he enjoys working and is ‘not joking’ about making another run for the Oval Office. ‘A lot of people want me to do it,’ Trump told NBC News in a phone interview on Sunday. ‘But, I mean, I basically tell them we have a long way to go, you know, it’s very early in the administration.’ For now, he’s...
WASHINGTON – In a wide-ranging interview last week, Energy Secretary Chris Wright discussed how the U.S. can bring nuclear power to the fore for both energy and defense purposes, starting with rebooting otherwise dormant ‘pit’ production. Under the first Trump administration, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) sought to meet the Pentagon’s goal of manufacturing 80 such pits – spherical hulls of plutonium sized from a grapefruit to a bowling ball – according to the...
The Trump administration’s Signal chat leak represents the ‘profound’ risk of ‘uncontrolled communication,’ which could have implications on future operations, a former national intelligence official said Sunday. Sue Gordon, the former principal deputy national intelligence director during President Donald Trump’s first term, reacted to the leak during an appearance on CBS’ ‘Face the Nation.’ ‘I’m glad the operation was successful,’ Gordon said, referring to the U.S. military strikes on Houthi terrorist targets. ‘Now we need...
