Trump trade deal shows how vital China’s rare-earth metals are to US defense firms
Draft agreement may reassure top US military suppliers after president’s tariffs flip-flopping threatened production
Great British Energy’s budget has been nuked
Ed Miliband’s vehicle for investing in renewables lost 30% of its pot to small modular nuclear reactors in the spending review
GB Energy’s promised £8.3bn budget raided to pay for small nuclear reactors
National energy company effectively loses £2.5bn to separate body tasked with spearheading nuclear renaissance
UK politics: Police chiefs say funding ‘falls far short’ of what is needed to meet government’s ambitions – as it happened
NPCC’s Gavin Stephens says settlement in spending review will cover little more than inflationary pay rises
Reeves’s spending review was big on the long term but light on the everyday
Her capital-heavy approach will fuel pressure for commitments that make a more immediate difference to people’s lives
Spending review 2025: who are the winners and losers?
Rachel Reeves has announced big boosts to capital spending, but is squeezing the budgets of most government departments. How happy will ministers be?
Trump says China will face 55% tariffs under trade deal; US inflation rises to 2.4% – as it happened
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news
Reeves pledges funds for northern rail but London left short
North and the regions benefit but Sadiq Khan disappointed as capital secures only one major request
‘They went too far’: Musk says he regrets some of his posts about Trump
Tesla share price rises as former Doge head seems to retreat from feud and president hints at reconciliation
Wealthy Australians are worried we might realise how rigged the system is in their favour
The discussions around the absurdly small changes to tax on superannuation should be the start to addressing the growing wealth inequality in this country
The latest Andrex advert is a life-changing masterpiece
In scraping the bottom of the barrel to find something new to say about toilet paper, they’ve struck gold. If I had seen this as a kid, it would saved me years of fear and shame, writes Adrian Chiles
Aircraft leasing firms win multibillion-dollar lawsuit over planes ‘lost’ in Russia
High court in London rules companies can recover losses from insurers for aircraft stuck since invasion of Ukraine
Trump says China will face 55% tariffs as he endorses trade deal
Agreement struck in London will increase supply of rare earth minerals and magnets for US car industry
Hybrid working out of reach for poor and low-skilled workers, says ONS
Such shift patterns are now the ‘new normal’ for more than a quarter of workers in Great Britain, figures show
Has Rachel Reeves made the right choices? Our panel responds to the spending review
The chancellor announced spending on health, housing, defence, and infrastructure. But will it be felt by ordinary voters? Polly Toynbee, Kirsty Major, Sahil Dutta, Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah, Jonny Roberts and Hannah White respond