24 Apr 2025

UK: Uniting the right, wooing Trump on trade, driving test wait

From Nine To Noon, 9:45 am on 24 April 2025
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Good luck booking a driving test in Britain - there's at least a six month wait. Photo: 123RF

UK correspondent Dan Bloom joins Kathryn to talk about leaked audio from Tory Robert Jenrick, a former leadership hopeful, suggesting Britain's warring right wing parties could be brought together.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has signaled the UK could lower tariffs on US car imports in return for a trade deal and the government has pledged to tackle the half-year wait for driving tests.

Dan Bloom is Political Editor of POLITICO in the UK.

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