Europe's rising right-wing influence

Marine Le Pen banned from running for office for five years ahead of France's 2027 general election amid rising nationalism

- ANTONIA FILMER LONDON

Britain seems to have got off relatively favourably on Liberation day; this is a benefit that Brexit can claim as UK is no longer obliged to send a whopping percentage of tariffs to Brussels thus making UK tariffs more reasonable than the EU's. In time US President Donald Trump's tariff impositions are likely to be balanced by US tax cuts, this in turn will lead to individuals having more money in their pockets and businesses having lower overheads, which will have the effect of negating the tariffs, and this can be seen as a win-win for the USA.

In Trump's equation of tariff and non-tariff factors it appears the UK and US are genuinely reciprocal. UK Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds intends to move forward with "pragmatic and balanced" negotiations towards an FTA; that is if Reynolds can avoid a conversation around free speech in the UK, whereby the hapless Livia Tossici-Bolt has been ordered to pay £20,000, for holding a sign inside an abortion clinic's buffer zone thereby breaching the Public Spaces Protection Order. The sign read "here to talk- if you want", it was found to have a possible detrimental effect on women attending the clinic, staff and associates or other members of the public.