UK politics: Trump states he has a better UK relationship with Burnham as PM – as it happened
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US president states Burnham is expected to be ‘a great PM’ in friendly first meeting on the sidelines of UN General Assembly but makes jibe at Starmer If Andy Burnham wanted to inject some edge into his meeting with Donald Trump later (which he doesn’t), he could bring along a copy of today’s Financial Times. The report also notes that This front page headline speaks for itself. Mortgages ‘on the front line’ as Iran war deals £840 blow to homeowners British homeowners are paying an average of £840 a year more when they refinance their mortgages, as the rising borrowing costs triggered by the Iran war start to impact consumers’ spending power. Approximately 1m households have rolled off fixed-rate mortgage deals since February, as reported by Bank of England data.
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