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Deal on whisky, gin, cars and cosmetics set to boost economy and cut prices for shoppers – but Indian temporary workers and their employers in the UK get three-year exemption from national insurance contributions

After disastrous local election results, Tory MPs hoping to install Robert Jenrick as new leader risk being disappointed as research suggest he would not beat Nigel Farage’s Reform

NEWS ANALYSIS: From swearing at protesters outside Downing Street to becoming the mayor of Lincolnshire in an election where opponents claimed she was not qualified to stand, Dame Andrea Jenkyns has had a career of controversy and drama like few others, says The Independent’s political editor David Maddox

In a speech following her victory, the 50-year-old said there would be ‘an end to soft-touch Britain’.

COMMENT: Nigel Farage’s ‘turquoise tidal wave’ has redrawn the electoral map, sweeping away the traditional Tory-Labour duopoly – and it couldn’t have happened without the 2016 EU referendum, says Sean O’Grady

Sarah Pochin becomes Reform UK’s fifth MP and its first female representative in parliament

As local elections loom, it’s clear that years of agreeing with the Reform leader have failed to discourage people from voting for him, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

NEWS ANALYSIS: Polls have put Reform UK ahead for months now but these local elections will be the first test of whether the traditional two-party Labour-Tory grip on British politics is under threat, writes David Maddox

Trump said a deal was “very close” on the same day Yaroslav Moskalik, a deputy chief in the general staff of Russia’s armed forces, was killed by an explosive device that was placed in his car