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President Trump says he’s imposing 30% tariffs on goods from Mexico and the European Union, starting from the beginning of next month.

One EU source said he had seen the outline of a US offer to the EU over the weekend. It sounded remarkably similar to the UK one.

President Trump is imposing 25% tariffs on all imports into the US from Japan and Korea.

Government bonds have rallied today after the prime minister’s public support for Rachel Reeves – bouncing back from yesterday’s turmoil amid concerns about government borrowing and the state of the public finances.

The value of the pound and Government bonds slumped in the wake of the Chancellor’s appearance in the Commons – amid speculation about Rachel Reeves’ Budget calculations and her political future.

More on tonight’s vote on the Government’s welfare reform and what it means from our Political Editor, Gary Gibbon.

We speak to Mel Stride, the Conservative Shadow Chancellor. Before the election he was Work and Pensions Secretary and announced plans to reduce spending on disability benefits.

We speak to Debbie Abrahams, the chair of the Work and Pensions committee, who was originally one of those organising the opposition to the welfare cuts, and who negotiated with the government last week.

Protestors against cuts to disability benefits have been rallying outside Parliament today.

There’s been yet another Government concession over welfare reform – in a last minute attempt to curb the size of a Labour backbench rebellion.

We spoke to our economics reporter Neil Macdonald about gloomy news on the UK’s standard of living.

We spoke to our social affairs editor Jackie Long about why Starmer’s welfare cuts are similar to that of the 2010 coalition government.

Faced with a growing backbench rebellion which threatened to scupper his Welfare Reform Bill – Sir Keir Starmer has confirmed the Government is now holding talks with rebel MPs – to discuss concessions.

The clash between Israel and Iran has put the world’s oil markets on edge.

There’s been a sharp drop in the number of people employed in the UK, down by 109,000 in May alone according to official figures.