The analysis finds that under the terms of a US-UK trade deal agreed in December, the NHS will divert billions of pounds from essential services to pay for the new drugs, which could lead to more than 200,000 deaths. Ministers have defended the deal as a way to help British drug exports avoid US tariffs
The entrance to the Volkswagen AG headquarters and factory in Wolfsburg, Germany. (Yen Duong/Bloomberg) June 29, 2026 10:25 am, EDT key takeaways: Volkswagen labor leaders said they are not included in the plan to cut more than 100,000 positions in Germany. Manager magazine reported that VW could double planned job cuts to 100,000 and close
This week, Labor secured a deal with the Greens to pass its reforms to capital gains tax exemptions and negative gearing. The Greens were unable to negotiate a more ambitious proposal to remove grandfathering or limit the number of negatively affected properties, but the party’s leader, Larissa Waters, says the deal was the best they