内容摘要：Republican Gov. Spencer Cox signed the law against the recommendation of many

Republican Gov. Spencer Cox signed the law against the recommendation of many

. The government has raised the minimum wage, strengthened workers’ rights and pumped money into the state-funded health system — but also hiked employer taxes andFarage announced a slew of worker-friendly — and costly — policies this week, saying a Reform government would cut income tax for millions of people and restore a

to help retirees cover heating costs that was cut by Starmer.Independent think-tank the Institute for Fiscal Studies says the tax pledge alone could cost between 50 billion pounds and 80 billion pounds ($67 billion and $108 billion) a year.“We know for a fact what happens when politicians say they are going to spend billions and billions of pounds that’s unfunded,” Starmer said.

Reform often contrasts Farage’s beer-loving, man-of-the-people image with the stiff, lawyerly Starmer.Starmer pushed back on Thursday, stressing his own working-class credentials.

“I know what it means to work 10 hours a day in a factory five days a week, and I know that because that is what my dad did every single working day of his life, and that’s what I grew up with,” Starmer said. “So I don’t need lessons from Nigel Farage about the issues that matter most to working people in this country.”

Farage, who was attending a cryptocurrency conference in Las Vegas on Thursday, posted on X that Starmr was “resorting to dirty tricks” to attack him.Trump announced the decision to push back the higher import duties after a call Sunday with Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, who said she “wants to get down to serious negotiations,” according to the U.S. president’s retelling.

and that the EU was “fully committed” to reaching a trade deal by the July 9 deadline.Just last week, Trump had said on social media that trade talks with the European Union “were going nowhere” and that “straight 50%” tariffs could go into effect on June 1.

Markets welcomed the news.The future for the S&P 500 gained 1.3%, while that for the Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 1%. The future for the Nasdaq composite rose 1.4%.