Has Trump betrayed Starmer steel deal?

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Sky News' Sam Coates and Politico's Anne McElvoy service up their indispensable usher to the time successful British politics.

The UK alloy manufacture - which was connected the verge of illness conscionable weeks agone - volition nary longer look the heaviest of Donald Trump's tariffs, the US announced overnight.

We're the lone state spared the doubling of tariffs connected alloy imports to the US to 50% - ours alternatively capped astatine 25%.

This sounds large - until you retrieve past month's UK-US statement - erstwhile the PM negotiated President Trump's 25% tariff down to zero - a woody that is yet to travel into force.

What's happened? And however large a triumph is this for Sir Keir Starmer and for Labour successful immoderate case? Is this ensuring the revival of British steel, oregon simply different enactment of execution?