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MPs vote to save British Steel Scunthorpe blast furnaces
Parliament was recalled to pass emergency legislation and keep the two blast furnaces at Scunthorpe alight.
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British Steel nationalisation may be necessary, says David Davis
We spoke to former Conservative minister David Davis.
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‘Without steel this town dies’: Scunthorpe reacts to emergency bill
Scunthorpe is the last plant left making steel from iron ore instead of recycling scrap.
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UK needs cheap energy to compete in market – expert
We spoke to Carrie Bone who’s the European Steel Editor at the market intelligence company Kallanish Commodities.
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US holds nuclear talks with Iran
Donald Trump has previously threatened “hell to pay” for Iran if a deal wasn’t reached – while Iran insists it wants a fair agreement.
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National Park bosses warn that funding cuts threaten conservation
The message from the National Park bosses that we spoke to is quite clear: they cannot keep going with the job which is required of them by law, and cannot fulfil their duties, unless we rethink the way they are financed.
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Debate: What do Brits gain or lose from Trump tariffs?
We spoke to Helen Morrissey, who’s head of retirement analysis at Hargreaves Lansdown, and personal finance and consumer expert Sue Hayward.
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How do Brits feel about the future of the economy?
From the cost of living to taxes and pensions – how will the global economic turmoil sparked by Donald Trump’s tariffs affect the UK?
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‘Trump’s good at sticks, not carrots’, say US analyst
We asked Fiona Hill if she saw any parallels between how President Trump has dealt with tariffs and Russia.
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Iran, Russia, and Gaza: Trump’s mission to restore world peace
The White House special envoy Steve Witkoff has been meeting Vladimir Putin in Moscow – hoping for some progress in the attempt to agree a ceasefire in Ukraine.
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Has America lost its moral compass? We ask Trump’s pastor
We spoke to Pastor Mark Burns – one of Donald Trump’s top spiritual advisors – and a man whose previous run for the House of Representatives was endorsed by the president.
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Donald Trump is ‘shooting America in the foot’ – US economist
We spoke to the Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz – who’s served as chief economist at the World Bank and is now a professor at Columbia University.
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Tariffs ‘better in long run’, says Trump-voting farmer
We’re in Washington, where the markets are in flux, bonds are in peril, the dollar is at a three-year-low and China has described Donald Trump’s unprecedented tariff war as “a joke”.
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Debate: Does the UK need British Steel?
We spoke to Kwasi Kwarteng, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer during Liz Truss’s short stint as Prime Minister, and Labour MP Liam Byrne, who is the chair of Parliament’s Business and Trade Committee.
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Are we on a one-way road to nationalising British Steel?
In a press statement about the future of British Steel’s site in Scunthorpe, Sir Keir Starmer said Britain’s economic and national security was “on the line”.
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Scunthorpe workers relieved as government considers nationalisation
As MPs are recalled from their Easter break for an emergency debate on the future of British Steel’s site in Scunthorpe, we speak to some of its workers.
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PM aims to pass emergency law to save British Steel
MPs have been hastily called back from their Easter break for tomorrow’s emergency debate on the future of British Steel’s site in Scunthorpe.
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‘This is amateur hour’: Joseph Stiglitz on Trump tariffs and China
Economic relations between the US and China are effectively over as the world’s two largest economies trade blows in a tit-for-tat trade war that’s brought the global world order into a new era.
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Ralph Fiennes reunites with Juliette Binoche in Odyssey re-telling
This interpretation of Homer’s The Odyssey describes the return of a broken and tormented Odysseus.
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Trump’s approval ratings ‘up’ during tariff chaos – US pollster
James Johnson is a political adviser and pollster. We asked him if all that’s happened in the White House lately and if the criticism of it has had any impact on President Trump’s approval ratings.
