内容摘要：First Minister John Swinney has not changed his position over the years.

First Minister John Swinney has not changed his position over the years.

The lobby group UK Steel has warned of the danger of excess steel potentially being redirected to the UK market.The spillover impacts of an all-out China-US trade war would be felt globally, and most economists judge that the impact would be highly negative.

Little more than 19 months after the bloodless coup that brought an end to more than five decades of rule by the Bongo family, the people of Gabon are about to head to the polls to choose a new head of state - bucking a trend that has seen military leaders elsewhere in Africa cling on to power.The overwhelming favourite in the race on Saturday is the man who led that peaceful putsch and has dominated the political scene ever since, Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema.Having abandoned his soldier's fatigues and military status in favour of a politician's suit, this highly articulate former commander of the elite Republican Guard faces seven other candidates.

Basking in popularity among a population relieved to be rid of dynastic rule - and assisted by electoral regulations that disqualified some key challengers - the 50-year-old appears almost certain to secure an outright majority in the first ballot.His campaign slogan - using his initials "C'BON" - is a play on the French words "c'est bon", meaning "it's good".

His chances of avoiding a second round run-off are bolstered by the fact that his main challenger - one of the rare senior political or civil society figures not to have rallied to his cause - is the old regime's last prime minister, Alain-Claude Bilie-By-Nze, known by his initials ACBBN.

Victory will bring a seven-year mandate and the resources to implement development and modernising reform at a pace that the rulers of crisis-beset African countries could not even dream of.These give a completely different result - Labour 10 points behind both the Conservatives and the Lib Dems. With regards to what is printed on the Labour leaflet, he says he is “very confused about the basis for that claim, and I follow these things quite closely”.

Labour pointed to an entirely different model run by an independent software developer based on a universal swing across the country. That did show the party ahead in Eastleigh.It just goes to show there are lots of different possible numbers you can point to to support a message of tactical voting - and parties will pick whichever suits them.

So voters be warned: if you’re looking for the perfect chart, you can’t win here.When US President Donald Trump hit China with tariffs in his first term, Vietnamese entrepreneur Hao Le saw an opportunity.