Nicholas Cecil is Political Editor of the Evening Standard. He covers politics at Westminster, foreign affairs, the economy, intelligence and security, and other major stories affecting London and Britain including the Covid-19 epidemic, climate change, air pollution and occasionally sport stories....
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Nicholas Cecil is Political Editor of the Evening Standard. He covers politics at Westminster, foreign affairs, the economy, intelligence and security, and other major stories affecting London and Britain including the Covid-19 epidemic, climate change, air pollution and occasionally sport stories.
Three killed including 17-year-old girl in drone attack on Ukraine
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
Beijing slams Trump as US document tells of '245% tariffs' on China
The US President has ordered a probe into potential new tariffs on all US critical minerals imports
We don't want more visas, says India's top UK envoy on a trade deal
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
UK wants zero Trump tariffs, says minister as US eyes medicines levies
Tariffs on Britain’s pharmaceutical industry could deal a severe blow, potentially costing firms billions of pounds
Trump tariffs puncture US car sector with 'negative' Barclays rating
Goldman Sachs has cut its estimate for automobile sales in the US for this year by nearly 1 million units
Coking coal to keep British Steel Scunthorpe furnaces burning 'on way'
Industry minister Sarah Jones confirmed the shipment had been paid for and the rescue mission was being stepped up on Tuesday
JD Vance in new clash with Zelensky over Ukraine peace deal
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
Vladimir Putin 'mocking' Donald Trump's goodwill with Ukraine attacks
Russian missiles hit the northern Ukrainian city of Sumy days ago, killing 34 people and injuring more than 110
Ministers seek more China investment in UK despite steelworks fiasco
Trade minister Douglas Alexander is currently in China seeking to drum up business deals
More Brits buy gold which hits record high price in Trump trade chaos
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
China hits back at US with 125% tariffs as Trump's trade war explodes
The move announced on Friday is the latest tit-for-tat retaliatory tariffs hike in a growing trade war between the two superpowers
Nigel Farage compares Donald Trump to Liz Truss on tariffs trade war
The Reform UK leader believes both Trump and Truss did ‘too much too soon’
EU pauses retaliatory tariffs on US imports after Trump U-turn
Beijing has vowed to fight an all-out trade war ‘to the end’ and is comparing the economic battle to the Korean War which ended in stalemate
Crisis for Reeves as Trump tariffs send cost of UK borrowing soaring
The trade war escalated with China hitting back by imposing 84% levies on imports from the US
Germany's far-right AfD party tops major poll for first time
Outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats are lagging behind the Conservatives and the Alternative for Germany, according to the survey
US says 104% tariffs will be imposed on China in trade war escalation
China has vowed to ‘fight to the end’ in a trade war
Tax rises 'on cards' as UK hit by Trump's all-out tariffs trade war
London and South East to escape full brunt of US import levies hitting the North and Midlands, says ex-Cabinet Secretary Lord O’Donnell
Trump: 'Don't be stupid' as he 'shoots himself in foot' with tariffs
The US president was facing a huge backlash over his economic gamble
Global trade war escalates as Trump threatens China with 104% tariffs
The White House confirmed that with previous hikes in tariffs on China, the total Beijing was now being threatened with would be 104%
Tariff chaos as UK stock market sees biggest daily fall since Covid
The stock markets in the UK, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea and Australia were all falling for a second day
'Trade war in nobody's interests' says Starmer ahead of Trump tariffs
But the Prime Minister has been criticised for not taking a tougher approach to the US president’s import levies plan