James Woolcock

The paper cites three unnamed sources saying White House trade officials were worried tariffs were hurting consumers by hitting the prices of food and drinks cans.

Countries including the UK, Mexico and Canada, as well as EU members, could stand to benefit from any easing.

In London, James Woolcock, Bloomberg Radio.

Among the elite businessmen who carried on friendly, crude and sometimes disturbing correspondence with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, few kept up their exchanges as long as Sultan Ahmed bin Sulaim.

Emails show the men exchanged contacts in business and politics, attempted to broker deals for one another and made explicit references to sexual encounters.

Now, in the wake of those emails being made public, both the UK's development finance bank, British International Investment,

and Canadian pension fund Caisse de Depot et Placement du Québec have halted their investments with Sulaim's firm DP World.

Bloomberg investigated the emails last summer, and Sulaim has not responded to repeated requests for comment since then.

In London, James Woolcock, Bloomberg Radio.

Good morning, Nathan, Karen.

We learned yesterday the Labour Party is deeply unhappy.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer lost two of his top aides in less than 24 hours.

And we are reporting this morning that a third, the most senior civil servant in the country, Chris Wormald, may also be nearing the exit.

But yet...

The PLP, the Parliamentary Labour Party, are not yet open to the idea of getting rid of the man in the top job.

Many cabinet ministers told Bloomberg on the record yesterday that they are backing Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

But privately, many think...

There will be leadership challenges on the horizon.

They aren't ready yet, is what they tell us.

Economic data, though, is starting to improve in the UK, but political attention is less on the numbers and more on the dates.