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Exclusive: Ex-minister to call for wealth tax, and Andy Burnham to demand focus on housing and educationNext month’s spending review must be an “economic reset” based on a bold wealth tax and higher public investment, the former cabinet minister Louise Haigh is to argue, as Keir Starmer faces renewed pressure from within Labour to change course.Haigh’s comments come as Andy Burnham called for Labour to “re-establish itself unequivocally once again as the party of working-class ambition” with ambitious offerings on housing and education. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/31/labour-spending-review-economic-reset-louise-haigh-andy-burnham Author : Peter Walker and Eleni Courea Publish date : 2025-05-31

Not all is going smoothly after Friedrich Merz’s promise to build up German army and ‘no limits’ on helping UkraineWithin days of Russia launching its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Olaf Scholz announced a Zeitenwende, or historical “turning point”. The then German chancellor promised a security transformation by increasing defence spending, sending more aid to Ukraine, taking a tougher approach to authoritarian states and rapidly reducing Germany’s dependence on Russian energy.It was a psychological turning point for a country haunted by its Nazi past but now expected to step up – as the biggest economic power in Europe –

President tells Pennsylvania rally tariffs will benefit workers and celebrates Japanese investment in US SteelDonald Trump announced on Friday he was doubling foreign tariffs on steel imports to 50%, as he celebrated a “blockbuster” agreement for Japan-based Nippon Steel’s to invest in US Steel during a rally in Pennsylvania.Surrounded by men in orange hardhats at a US Steel plant in West Mifflin, Trump unveiled the tariff rate increase, declaring that the dramatic hike would “even further secure the steel industry in the United States”. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/30/trump-tariffs-steel-japan Author : Lauren Gambino Publish date : 2025-05-31 00:07:00 Copyright

Move against Kim Sajet, gallery’s first female chief, comes as caption on Trump references impeachments and January 6Donald Trump says he is firing the first female director of the National Portrait Gallery, which contained a caption that referenced the attack on the US Capitol that his supporters carried out in early 2021.The president announced the sacking Friday through a post on his social media platform that accused Sajet – born in Nigeria, raised in Australia and a citizen of the Netherlands – of being “a strong supporter” of diversity initiatives that his administration opposes as well as “highly partisan”. He