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Today — 19 January 2025Main stream

Trump to start ‘two year race’ to change America and the world as he returns to the White House

19 January 2025 at 10:38

Mr Trump’s swearing-in as the 47th president is set to be followed by scores of executive orders and a massive shift in domestic and global policy as allies hail his Maga revolution while critics fear a resurgence of fascism

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Trump will only have a quarter of the staff he needs in place when he enters office

Exclusive: The Project 2025 plan to have the incoming Trump administration roles filled from day one appears to have spectacularly failed

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Yesterday — 18 January 2025Main stream

Nigel Farage proclaimed ‘Britain’s future PM’ at champagne fuelled Trump celebration party

The Independent’s political editor David Maddox and White House correspondent Andrew Feinberg were at the Hay Adams hotel opposite the White House as Brexiteer Brits hosted the biggest inauguration party in town and plotted a populist future with their US allies

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Trump considering rejecting Lord Mandelson as Starmer’s nominee for ambassador to the US

19 January 2025 at 02:15

Exclusive: With Donald Trump set to be sworn in as the 47th US president on Monday, the nomination of Lord Mandelson as the UK’s ambassador to the US is still causing problems

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Before yesterdayMain stream

Starmer considers UK troops in Ukraine in peacekeeper role as he meets Zelensky in Kyiv

Keir Starmer has made his first trip to Kyiv as UK prime minister to offer long-term support to Ukraine which could see British troops brought in as peacekeepers

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Farage and Truss in right-wing plot to derail Chagos Islands deal at the last minute

Exclusive: Chagos Islands row has ‘laid the groundwork’ for future cooperation between Tories and Reform, a leading organiser of efforts to stop the deal with Mauritius has claimed

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Starmer running out of time to land Chagos Islands deal before Trump takes power

13 January 2025 at 03:04

The UK and Mauritius governments issue a joint statement admitting that they still have not agreed a deal for the handover of the Chagos Islands with an incoming Trump administration set to try to block an agreement

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Nigel Farage and Elon Musk to reunite as Reform leader hosts Trump inauguration party in Washington

11 January 2025 at 05:27

Exclusive: Nigel Farage is set to host ‘the biggest inauguration party’ in Washington DC with Donald Trump, the president-elect’s family, Elon Musk, senior Republicans and the UK’s new ambassador to the US Lord Mandelson all expected to attend

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Trump will finish the Ayatollahs in Iran, says Mike Pompeo

9 January 2025 at 10:18

Exclusive: Trump’s former secretary of state and foreign policy chief told an Iranian pro-democracy conference in Paris that the change of administration in Washington will mark an end to the current regime in Tehran

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Lammy declares ‘Trump is right’ on defence spending as he warns post-Cold War peace is over

9 January 2025 at 10:26

The foreign secretary has used his first major speech of 2025 to go after Putin’s aggression in tearing up the world order and back Trump’s demands for significant increases in defence spending

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Farage makes sixth US trip as MP to be headliner at MAGA gala which has snubbed ‘loser’ Tories

9 December 2024 at 13:00

Exclusive: Nigel Farage has been unveiled as a headline speaker at a MAGA gala just a week after Kemi Badenoch met up with vice president elect J. D. Vance as Reform UK and the Tories vie for support from Team Trump

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Israel fury with Lammy’s diplomacy by Twitter over ‘unacceptable humanitarian situation in Gaza’

3 December 2024 at 14:53

David Lammy along with the foreign ministers of France and Germany has written to the Israeli government warning about the ‘unacceptable humanitarian situation in Gaza’

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