Higher levels of tariffs and increased geopolitical threats are a “major risk” to the global economy, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said. It comes as US President Donald Trump is once again threatening to raise taxes imposed on imports, this time against eight European countries for not supporting his plan to take over the […]
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Robert Jenrick claims he told Kemi Badenoch to kick former prime minister Liz Truss out of the Conservative Party because of her “cackhanded” mini budget. The former shadow justice secretary, who defected to Reform last week, told Sky News Mornings with Ridge and Frost that Ms Badenoch’s refusal to do so was one of the
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Two people, including a 12-year-old boy, are reported to be critically ill after separate shark attacks in Sydney, the third incident in two days. The boy had been jumping off rocks with friends late on Sunday afternoon, off Shark Beach in Vaucluse, when he was bitten. Police said he was pulled from the water by
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Andrew Rosindell has become the second Conservative MP to defect to Reform UK within a week. The MP for Romford, Essex, announced on Sunday evening he had decided to resign from his position as a shadow foreign office minister in Kemi Badenoch’s frontbench and as a member of the Conservative Party. The move came after
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Keir Starmer had wanted this week to get on with his “cost of living tour” of the country to tap into voters’ concerns in this all-important election year. Donald Trump’s Greenland threat obstructed that: Over the weekend, the prime minister and his team have been locked in talks in Downing Street, and with European allies,
The government has pulled an amendment to its proposed Hillsborough Law amid concerns from campaigners and some MPs that intelligence agencies could use it to “hide serious failures” from the public. It has also withdrawn the legislation from Monday’s parliamentary agenda entirely after initially planning for its report stage and third reading to go ahead and then bring
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The private equity firm which owns a controlling stake in Asda is closing in on a £275m deal to buy a division of the listed cybersecurity company NCC Group. Sky News has learnt that TDR Capital is in late-stage talks to buy Escode, which has been the subject of acquisition talks since last summer. Banking
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Thousands of people in Kent are once again experiencing water supply issues days after similar disruption. An estimated 4,500 properties in several rural areas around Maidstone and hundreds more in Tunbridge Wells are experiencing little to no water, South East Water (SEW) said. The company put the issues down to an electrical fault at a
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At least 16 people have been killed and nearly 20,000 people have fled to safety after wildfires, as a “state of catastrophe” was declared in Chile. Firefighters were battling 24 different fires across the country on Sunday morning, with the worst burning in the Nuble and Bio Bio regions, where the government declared an emergency.
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