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<div>Trump has blown the Overton window wide open. In a press conference yesterday alongside Benjamin Netanyahu, the US president outlined his intention to ‘take over the Gaza Strip’, displacing 1.8 million Palestinians in the process. His plan – if you can call it that – is to build ‘the Riviera of the Middle East’. Many of the countries Trump has earmarked to resettle displaced Gazans have already condemned the takeover. How will the international community respond?<br>
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Elsewhere, Keir Starmer seems more motivated by a desire to observe the rule of international law than his buddy across the pond. The Chagos deal seems set to be completed in the ‘coming weeks’. However, the new Mauritian prime minister, Navin Ramgoolam, claimed yesterday that Starmer cut a deal – in the presence, rather curiously, of his Attorney General, Lord Hermer – that would effectively double the £9 billion first offered to the country to take back the archipelago. Why are they pressing ahead with this deal? And, seven months into this government, are we any closer to discovering what ‘progressive realism’ actually is?<br>
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James Heale speaks to Katy Balls and Michael Stephens, associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).<br>
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Produced by Oscar Edmondson.</div>

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Should Starmer stand up to Trump?

<div>It's happened. Reform are now ahead of Labour, according to a voting intention poll by YouGov. Reform leads the landmark poll with 25 points, with Labour languishing all the way down in second place on 24 points. Meanwhile, the Conservatives place third on 21 per cent, the Liberal Democrats are on 14 per cent and the Greens on 9 per cent. While there have been a handful of polls to date putting Reform in the lead, they have so far been regarded as outliers. It's a slim lead, but does it point to a long term shift in UK politics – or can it be dismissed as a blip? Does this make a Tory-Reform pact more likely? <br>
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Oscar Edmondson speaks to Katy Balls and James Heale. <br>
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Produced by Oscar Edmondson. </div>

Reform in 'poll' position

<div>Trump's tariff spree continues... After making good on his election promise to opt for another round of tariffs – a 25 per cent tax on imports from Canada and Mexico and a 10 per cent levy on Chinese goods – Trump has now turned his attention to Europe.<br>
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In an interview with the <em>BBC</em>, the president said that while the UK would likely avoid tariffs, the EU might not be so lucky and described the trade relationship with Europe as an ‘atrocity’. This comes on the day that Keir Starmer is in Brussels and will likely be trying to smooth the road ahead of a post-Brexit ‘reset’. Can Labour continue to play both sides?<br>
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Katy Balls speaks to Kate Andrews and Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform.<br>
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Produced by Oscar Edmondson.</div>

Trump vs Europe

<div>This week, Cindy Yu presents highlights from Sunday morning's political shows.<br>
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The day before Keir Starmer is set to meet with European leaders, we hear contrasting views on Brexit and the UK's relationship with Europe from Yvette Cooper, Ed Davey and Andrew Griffith. Plus, Cooper talks about AI's dangerous involvement in the production of child abuse material.</div>

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