Splendor crown to impress Donald Trump. The United Kingdom will play Power Power’s Royal Charter during the visit of the US President to London. In the program: a real salvation in Windsor Castle with King Charles and Queen Camilla, followed by a carriage procession in Windsor Castle. In the process, the presidential couple will place a crown of flowers in the tomb of Elisabeth II before attending a military parade that will be flown by US F-35 accompanied by the acrobatic patrol of the Royal Air Force, the famous red arrows.
London will put the small dishes in the big ones to convince Donald Trump. He will meet with Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Thursday in Checkers, his official residence of the field at 70 km in London, and will leave the same night in the United States. Objective: Cajole to the unpredictable president. He had transmitted to him in person in the oval office of the King’s invitation in February, emphasizing the cameras that this second invitation had no precedents. “This strategy allowed him to amortize the impact of customs tasks and maintain in particular a communication channel in Ukraine, in the Menu of Discussions and the Middle East.
Loan rates on France
Because London more than ever needs Washington economically. The bad news accumulates in the United Kingdom. Public finances are suffering and the country even borrows much higher than France (4.64% for “10 years” against 3.49% for Paris).
The “real” economy is also affected. If the growth is currently maintained at a correct level, the unemployment rate in the United Kingdom has remained in its upper part in four years, with 4.7%, during the three months completed at the end of July, according to figures from the National Statistics Office (ONS) on Tuesday. The unemployment figure has grown regularly since the beginning of the year and had reached this level at the end of May that had not been seen since 2021.
These had seen at the beginning of April the entry into force of an increase in the contributions of the employer, provided by the first budget of the Labor Government presented last autumn, as well as the new customs rights “reciprocal” imposed by the United States. During the three months completed at the end of July, “companies told us that there were fewer jobs,” said Liz McKeown, director of Ons economic statistics. But the drop rate in work offers “seems to decrease.”
As if that were not enough, the price increase has left throughout the channel. Inflation rose to the United Kingdom in July 3.8% for a year, while growth has stagnated during the same period, according to the latest official figures, pressing the Labor Government as the presentation of the next budget, scheduled for November 26.
Fear of tax increases
To find the billions of books that have been missing, the British speculate for months about new tax increases that could be announced on this occasion by the Minister of Finance, Rachel Reeves.
In this context, London becomes more than ever to Washington. After hurrying to sign a commercial agreement with Donald Trump to avoid confrontation (10% against 15% of customs duties in the EU), the United Kingdom now intends to sign a series of other agreements with the president. Especially in steel and aluminum exports. The country has been saved relatively with a 25% tax (compared to 50% for most other countries), but still hopes to reduce the invoice of exported metal quotas.
In addition, Keir Starmer also has Donald Tump for technological and energy associations to energize a slow economy. The Giant Blackrock has already announced 500 million pounds (578 million euros) in investments in data centers. Google promised on Tuesday an investment of 5 billion pounds (5.78 billion euros) for two years in the United Kingdom, especially in a data center and artificial intelligence.
7 of 10 British to disapprove the government
London and Washington will also sign an agreement to accelerate the time to authorize nuclear projects between the two countries. Called “Atlantic Association for Advanced Nuclear Energy”, this agreement should allow the prime minister to be expected of “a nuclear gold age” with the United States.
According to an American official, who spoke with journalists, upstream of the visit, the ads will be “more than ten billion, perhaps tens of billions” of dollars. Enough to give a tone to the economy of the kingdom and resume a government disapproved by 69% of those questioned according to a survey published on September 8.
Source: BFM TV
