Graham Lanktree
@glanktree.bsky.social
Canadian in London. Senior Reporter, UK Trade
at POLITICO.
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NEW: Tens of thousands of documents appearing to be from "Dataset 8" of the Epstein files went live on a Justice Department website today, only to be pulled down hours later without explanation.
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December 23, 2025 at 3:56 AM
NEW: Tens of thousands of documents appearing to be from "Dataset 8" of the Epstein files went live on a Justice Department website today, only to be pulled down hours later without explanation.
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Trump appointed Louisiana’s governor as Washington’s special envoy to Greenland, reigniting a fight over the fate of the Arctic island.
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Denmark fumes as Trump appoints Louisiana governor envoy to Greenland
The American president has recruited a new ally as he says the Danish island is crucial to U.S. security.
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December 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Trump appointed Louisiana’s governor as Washington’s special envoy to Greenland, reigniting a fight over the fate of the Arctic island.
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🌽 FINAL LONDON PLAYBOOK PM OF 2025 ...
🪖 Loads on Ukraine
🏗️ Crumbling commons scoop from @estwebber and @danbloom1
🇺🇸 Scoop on another top US visit in Jan
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🪖 Loads on Ukraine
🏗️ Crumbling commons scoop from @estwebber and @danbloom1
🇺🇸 Scoop on another top US visit in Jan
🌈 Read the full thing and subscribe (free) here: www.politico.eu/newsletter/l...
December 19, 2025 at 5:33 PM
🌽 FINAL LONDON PLAYBOOK PM OF 2025 ...
🪖 Loads on Ukraine
🏗️ Crumbling commons scoop from @estwebber and @danbloom1
🇺🇸 Scoop on another top US visit in Jan
🌈 Read the full thing and subscribe (free) here: www.politico.eu/newsletter/l...
🪖 Loads on Ukraine
🏗️ Crumbling commons scoop from @estwebber and @danbloom1
🇺🇸 Scoop on another top US visit in Jan
🌈 Read the full thing and subscribe (free) here: www.politico.eu/newsletter/l...
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As the Trump administration turns its attention away from Europe, Britain and Canada will double down on their relationship in 2026 with an "ambitious" new strategic partnership, Ralph Goodale, Canada’s High Commissioner to London, told POLITICO.
Canada eyes an ‘ambitious’ new partnership with Britain amid Trump turmoil
The two countries’ relationship is “incredibly valuable in the kind of dangerous and turbulent world in which we live,” Canada’s High Commissioner to London, Ralph Goodale, tells POLITICO as he steps down.
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December 19, 2025 at 9:03 AM
As the Trump administration turns its attention away from Europe, Britain and Canada will double down on their relationship in 2026 with an "ambitious" new strategic partnership, Ralph Goodale, Canada’s High Commissioner to London, told POLITICO.
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SCOOP: Starmer and Carney are working on a new strategic partnership that could see Canada buy the U.K.'s 6th-gen fighter jet, forge critical minerals deals and resolve thorny trade and tariff issues, High Commissioner Goodale tells POLITICO as he steps down.
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Canada eyes an ‘ambitious’ new partnership with Britain amid Trump turmoil
The two countries’ relationship is “incredibly valuable in the kind of dangerous and turbulent world in which we live,” Canada’s High Commissioner to London, Ralph Goodale, tells POLITICO as he ste…
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December 19, 2025 at 7:45 AM
SCOOP: Starmer and Carney are working on a new strategic partnership that could see Canada buy the U.K.'s 6th-gen fighter jet, forge critical minerals deals and resolve thorny trade and tariff issues, High Commissioner Goodale tells POLITICO as he steps down.
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Exclusive: Britain is advancing a new "home defence programme" preparing for Russian attacks on home soil
Plans for a new force to protect critical national infrastructure will be presented to the government next year, and the police are scoping different scenarios
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Plans for a new force to protect critical national infrastructure will be presented to the government next year, and the police are scoping different scenarios
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Britain Is Preparing for Attacks on Its Soil. Critics Say It Must Move Faster.
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December 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Exclusive: Britain is advancing a new "home defence programme" preparing for Russian attacks on home soil
Plans for a new force to protect critical national infrastructure will be presented to the government next year, and the police are scoping different scenarios
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Plans for a new force to protect critical national infrastructure will be presented to the government next year, and the police are scoping different scenarios
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Prime Minister Mark Carney says U.S. access to Canada’s critical minerals is not ‘assured.’
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U.S. access to Canada’s critical minerals not ‘assured,’ Carney says
Ottawa, Ontario reach new agreement to streamline major project approvals, including mining in Ring of Fire
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December 19, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Prime Minister Mark Carney says U.S. access to Canada’s critical minerals is not ‘assured.’
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SCOOP: Starmer and Carney are working on a new strategic partnership that could see Canada buy the U.K.'s 6th-gen fighter jet, forge critical minerals deals and resolve thorny trade and tariff issues, High Commissioner Goodale tells POLITICO as he steps down.
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Canada eyes an ‘ambitious’ new partnership with Britain amid Trump turmoil
The two countries’ relationship is “incredibly valuable in the kind of dangerous and turbulent world in which we live,” Canada’s High Commissioner to London, Ralph Goodale, tells POLITICO as he ste…
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December 19, 2025 at 7:45 AM
SCOOP: Starmer and Carney are working on a new strategic partnership that could see Canada buy the U.K.'s 6th-gen fighter jet, forge critical minerals deals and resolve thorny trade and tariff issues, High Commissioner Goodale tells POLITICO as he steps down.
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Christian Turner has been chosen as Britain’s new ambassador to the United States. The UK government confirmed it has chosen the career diplomat to take on the key transatlantic diplomacy role.
Christian Turner picked as new UK ambassador to Washington
Career diplomat is British government’s pick for the key envoy role vacated by Peter Mandelson scandal.
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December 18, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Christian Turner has been chosen as Britain’s new ambassador to the United States. The UK government confirmed it has chosen the career diplomat to take on the key transatlantic diplomacy role.
Speaking to POLITICO, Trade Minister Yeo Han-koo framed the agreement as a response to the rapidly shifting global trade order.
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The real winners from Britain and South Korea’s new trade deal
Carmakers, Scotch whisky producers and South Korean Guinness drinkers are among the deal’s big winners.
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December 17, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Speaking to POLITICO, Trade Minister Yeo Han-koo framed the agreement as a response to the rapidly shifting global trade order.
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Britain will investigate how hostile states like China and Russia are financially interfering with U.K. democracy and elections, ministers have announced.
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Britain vows to tackle foreign meddling in politics after Reform’s Russia bribes case
Ministers launch a review into foreign financial inference in Britain after a senior Reform UK politician was jailed for taking pro-Russia bribes.
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December 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Britain will investigate how hostile states like China and Russia are financially interfering with U.K. democracy and elections, ministers have announced.
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🚨BREAKING: US envoys in Berlin signaled they are ready to give Ukraine security guarantees for a future peace deal that correspond to the same levels of protection as Article 5 in the NATO alliance.
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December 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
🚨BREAKING: US envoys in Berlin signaled they are ready to give Ukraine security guarantees for a future peace deal that correspond to the same levels of protection as Article 5 in the NATO alliance.
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“.. Over the course of the gala, a club member struck an attendee in the face .., Trump was endorsed for a third term and a protester wearing a Nazi armband and waving a swastika-laden banner popped up .. to shout, ‘I guess we’re all Nazis!’”
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December 15, 2025 at 5:29 PM
“.. Over the course of the gala, a club member struck an attendee in the face .., Trump was endorsed for a third term and a protester wearing a Nazi armband and waving a swastika-laden banner popped up .. to shout, ‘I guess we’re all Nazis!’”
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Two peace deals Trump took credit for appear to unravel at the same time
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December 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Two peace deals Trump took credit for appear to unravel at the same time
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London mayor Sadiq Khan has hit back at Donald Trump Tuesday for suggesting he owes his election victories to the rising number of migrants in the U.K.
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London mayor rebukes ‘obsessed’ Trump over migration tirade
London’s mayor, targeted again by the US president in a POLITICO interview, said he wants to know what Trump has against diversity.
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December 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM
London mayor Sadiq Khan has hit back at Donald Trump Tuesday for suggesting he owes his election victories to the rising number of migrants in the U.K.
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🚨🚨Major #EU news: More than 80 percent of Europe’s companies will be freed from environmental reporting obligations after @europarl.europa.eu and @consilium.europa.eu reached a deal on a proposal to cut green rules on Monday. 🧵
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EU closes deal to slash green rules in major win for von der Leyen’s deregulation drive
Controversial “omnibus” bill saw center-right EU lawmakers side with the far right to water down environmental standards.
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December 9, 2025 at 8:34 AM
🚨🚨Major #EU news: More than 80 percent of Europe’s companies will be freed from environmental reporting obligations after @europarl.europa.eu and @consilium.europa.eu reached a deal on a proposal to cut green rules on Monday. 🧵
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Scandal-hit Fujitsu dropped from Brexit border system
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Scandal-hit Fujitsu dropped from Brexit border system
The move follows mounting public pressure to strip the Japanese tech firm of public contracts.
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December 9, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Scandal-hit Fujitsu dropped from Brexit border system
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Top US official Christopher Landau says EU regulation ‘undermines’ NATO ties – POLITICO Europe: ‘policies that he described in a separate post on Saturday as adverse to U.S. interests and a form of “civilizational suicide”’
Top US official says EU regulation ‘undermines’ NATO ties
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau said Europe’s policy agenda was hurting its credibility in Washington.
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December 7, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Top US official Christopher Landau says EU regulation ‘undermines’ NATO ties – POLITICO Europe: ‘policies that he described in a separate post on Saturday as adverse to U.S. interests and a form of “civilizational suicide”’
‘Yes, there’s a strategy’: Trump’s trade chief hits back at tariff critics
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‘Yes, There’s a Strategy’: Trump’s Trade Chief Hits Back at Tariff Critics
U.S. Trade Rep. Jamieson Greer talks tariffs, the Supreme Court and affordability in a new interview.
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December 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
‘Yes, there’s a strategy’: Trump’s trade chief hits back at tariff critics
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Britain vows to ‘wrest control’ of critical mineral supplies from China
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Britain vows to ‘wrest control’ of critical mineral supplies from China
The government wants to end China’s role as a “monopoly provider” of supplies central to the net zero drive.
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December 4, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Britain vows to ‘wrest control’ of critical mineral supplies from China
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Britain’s trade chief told reporters he hopes to fly to Washington before Christmas to keep bargaining as businesses continue to pile pressure on No. 10 to relieve the tariffs — and deliver on the Starmer government's main mission to spur economic growth.
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The UK-US trade deal isn’t done yet. Here’s what’s still on the table.
The U.K. managed to get Trump’s threatened pharma tariffs down from 100 percent to zero. Now they just have to get the rest of the deal wrapped up.
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December 3, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Britain’s trade chief told reporters he hopes to fly to Washington before Christmas to keep bargaining as businesses continue to pile pressure on No. 10 to relieve the tariffs — and deliver on the Starmer government's main mission to spur economic growth.
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Germany wants to undermine the EU's 2035 clean car mandate and allow "highly efficient combustion engine cars" after that.
What, you may ask, is a "highly efficient combustion engine car"?
"A highly efficient combustion engine car is a combustion engine car that is highly efficient," per the govt.
What, you may ask, is a "highly efficient combustion engine car"?
"A highly efficient combustion engine car is a combustion engine car that is highly efficient," per the govt.
„Ein hocheffizienter Verbrenner ist ein Verbrenner, der hocheffizient ist.“ (2/2)
December 1, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Germany wants to undermine the EU's 2035 clean car mandate and allow "highly efficient combustion engine cars" after that.
What, you may ask, is a "highly efficient combustion engine car"?
"A highly efficient combustion engine car is a combustion engine car that is highly efficient," per the govt.
What, you may ask, is a "highly efficient combustion engine car"?
"A highly efficient combustion engine car is a combustion engine car that is highly efficient," per the govt.
