This has left the party weak and divided, with many suspecting it will splinter into rival factions after voting day. "Haven't we already imploded?" one party insider said to me recently, their face crumpled in their hands. "This is a miserable campaign."
This would still be a considerable increase on the 2.5% level of 2024 and would be the highest since 1970.Yet 15% would have been the highest since the late 1930s.
Trump had been using his tariffs as negotiating leverage in talks with countries hit by his 2 April tariffs.Some analysts believe this trade court ruling will mean countries will now be less likely to rush to secure deals with the US.The European Union (EU)
with the White House last weekend after Trump threatened to increase the tariff on the bloc to 50% under IEEPA.The EU - and others, such as Japan and Australia - might now judge it would be more prudent to wait to see what happens to the White House's appeal against the trade court ruling before making any trade concessions to the US to secure a deal.
The response of stock markets around the world to the trade court ruling on Wednesday suggested it would be positive.
But it also means greater uncertainty.His co-accused, Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah, was found not guilty.
Suffering from terminal prostate cancer, Megrahi was released from prison in Scotland on compassionate grounds in 2009.He was returned to Libya and spent the next three years living in a villa in Tripoli before finally succumbing to his illness in 2012.
Ten years later, Libyan Abu Agila Mas'ud Kheir Al-Marimi, known as Masud, was taken into American custody after being removed from his home in Tripoli.He is awaiting trial in the USA, accused of building the bomb that destroyed Pan Am 103.