Energy cooperation with the EU is “absolutely vital” to protect the UK from price spikes following geopolitical shocks, such as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, an expert has warned.

Following the release of the UK Trade and Business Commission’s (UKTBC) pioneering report into a Youth Experience Scheme, outlining 17 recommendations for the government's negotiations with the EU, there’s a lot of detail to get across.

International students gaining a "lifelong fondness for the UK" is a "vital component of Britain's soft power", after the government announced it would scrap target numbers for international students in the UK.

The United Kingdom and South Korea have concluded negotiations on an upgraded free trade agreement, aimed at boosting exports of British goods including Bentley cars, Scottish salmon and Guinness brewed in the UK.

The government is set to announce tomorrow that the UK will rejoin the Erasmus+ scheme from January 2027 according to reports.

A new cross-party report recommends the UK and EU should launch the UK’s largest and most generous scheme to restore opportunities for young people who have been denied them by Brexit.

The UK Trade and Business Commission session brought together leading experts to assess the current state of UK-EU relations. Witnesses provided valuable insights into the ongoing negotiations of a ‘Youth Experience Scheme’ between the UK and the EU.

The prime ministers of the UK and India have signed a free trade agreement between the two countries. The deal will cut tariffs on a wide range of goods traded between the UK and India. Businesses have welcomed the agreement, although a number of key issues remain to be negotiated.

The latest trade figures from the ONS reaffirm that the European Union remains by far the UK’s largest and most important trading partner.

The UK Government has announced its intention to align with EU specifications on high risk in vitro diagnostic devices - tests on human samples for a wide range conditions, infections and diseases.

The Law Society of England and Wales has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Italian National Bar committing  the two organisations to work together to support lawyers from each country working in the other.

Lord Kim Darroch warned that the US President’s repeated delays in introducing tariffs may have created an ‘optimism bias’ in people’s view of US trade policy.

The national accreditation bodies of the UK and Australia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to “deepen collaboration and support trade and regulatory alignment” between the two countries.

The UK Trade and Business Commission has welcomed the full publication of the government's trade strategy today which highlighted the unparalleled importance of EU trade for British businesses.

This morning the government published the UK’s new Trade Strategy, the first one since the UK left the EU. The report outlines the targeted approach the government will take over the coming years to provide ‘practical deals that deliver faster benefits to UK businesses’. The Trade Strategy makes clear that the EU is “our closest neighbour and trading partner”, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer saying that he wanted the UK-EU relationship “to move on in iterations” at the yearly summits the UK and EU have now agreed to.

Commission Chair Andrew Lewin has welcomed the imminent publication of the government’s trade strategy and called for a renewed drive to secure mutual recognition agreements with the EU

Times have changed in UK-EU relations. Negotiators from London and Brussels appear to have been in a negotiating “tunnel” in early April, and the outside world didn’t notice. In amidst the closer cooperation may even be a certain amount of joint briefing designed to suggest how both sides are fighting for their interests on difficult topics, such as fish, to be triumphantly announced as being solved at the May 19 Summit.

When Rachel Reeves stood at the despatch box for Wednesday’s spending review her message was clear. The era of austerity was over. Fifteen years after George Osborne entered the Treasury, Reeves branded austerity as “a destructive choice for our economy…creating a lost decade for growth, wages, and living standards”. 

Defence expert Sir Adam Thomson, who held the role at the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) from 2014 to 2016, has today stressed that the “US nuclear deterrent that backs the NATO Article 5 guarantee is no longer fully credible”.

Donald Trump has temporarily exempted the UK from his executive order doubling the base rate of tariffs on steel and aluminium from 25% to 50%. The UK’s rate will remain at 25% until at least 9 July 2025, due to the recently agreed UK-US Economic Prosperity Deal (EPD) - but with a warning that the exemption relies on the EPD being implemented. So what is in the EPD? And what do these latest tariffs mean for the UK?