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JLR and Tata Motors Ltd. will be anchor customers for the plant capable of providing 40 gigawatt hours worth of batteries with supplies starting from 2026, according to a statement. Jaguar Owner Tata Picks Britain for £4 Billion Battery Plant (Bloomberg) -- Tata Group plans to build a £4 billion ($5.2 billion) battery plant in the UK to supply electric vehicles made by Jaguar Land Rover Automotive Plc, in a win for Britain's struggling car industry. [Extracted from the article]

Read More: UK Lobbies for Laxer Brexit Rules as Carmakers Seek Help Tata's battery-cell operation Agratas, which is building two factories - one in India and one in Europe - earlier this month posted job openings for UK-based battery factory jobs. (Bloomberg) -- The UK is set to secure a commitment from Tata Group to build a battery plant supplying a new range of electric Jaguar and Land Rover models. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- More than half of Britons would vote to rejoin the European Union for the first time since the nation opted to leave the bloc seven years ago, YouGov polling showed. Some 51% of Britons told the polling company that they would vote for the UK to become an EU member again, while 32% said they'd stay out, according to the survey conducted last week. [Extracted from the article]

It is different to the rapid pay rises being seen in the private sector, which threaten to cause a wage-price spiral as businesses then pass on their higher staff cost back to consumers. (Bloomberg) -- Prime Minister Rishi Sunak signed off on pay rises for millions of public sector workers in the UK, as he tries to end the months-long battle with labor unions that is undermining his government's efforts to improve services ahead of a general election expected next year. [Extracted from the article]

"If you fund any public sector pay rise by increasing borrowing that year, that pumps billions of pounds of extra money into the economy", Hunt told ITV's Peston program on Wednesday. (Bloomberg) -- The UK government accepted recommendations for public sector pay raises, as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak tries to draw a line under a year-long battle with labor unions. [Extracted from the article]

Sunak and Hunt are calculating that if they can get inflation down - it's currently running at 8.7% - they can still try to campaign on their economic record. (Bloomberg) -- UK cabinet ministers approved recommendations for public sector pay rises, a person familiar with the matter said, as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak tries to draw a line under a year-long battle with labor unions. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- The UK is "severely handicapped" by its short-termist approach to China, which poses the "main state security threat" to British interests, according to a long-awaited UK parliamentary inquiry. It made clear that China, rather than Russia, offers the biggest state security threat to Britain, with China "prolifically and aggressively" targeting the UK. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the fight against inflation trumps the need to cut UK taxes, signaling British voters are unlikely to benefit from a sizable pre-election giveaway. Sunak also said inflation is a consideration as the government decides how big pay rises should be this year for public sector workers including nurses and police officers. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Rishi Sunak is looking to enroll Germany's Olaf Scholz to help delay upcoming tariffs on electric vehicles shipped between the UK and the European Union, according to people familiar with the matter. Read more: Europe's EV Push Nearly Faltered Over Fuels That Are Years Away One challenge is that any shift would likely require changes to the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement, which Brussels has so far been keen to avoid. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Rishi Sunak is looking to enroll Germany's Olaf Scholz to help delay upcoming tariffs on electric vehicles shipped between the UK and the European Union, according to people familiar with the matter. The UK accounts for almost a quarter of EU EV exports and that currently attract no tariff, accounting for 47% market share in 2022, one of the documents says. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Negotiations between the UK and European Union over access to its international science programs are continuing and not yet resolved, the UK said in response to a report that the two sides had struck a draft agreement. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's government has been seeking a deal with the EU to be included in the Horizon Europe research fund, Copernicus earth observation project and the nuclear regulator Euratom, since signing an agreement on Northern Ireland in February. [Extracted from the article]

It comes at a dangerous time for Sunak just days after climate minister Zac Goldsmith quit with a dramatic broadside against Sunak's government. (Bloomberg) -- Rishi Sunak is under pressure to show his UK government will stick to its promises on tackling climate change, after a memo revealed officials' doubts about hitting a £11.6 billion ($14.7 billion) funding target. [Extracted from the article]

Read More: UK Army Officers Forced Electric Shock Treatment on Gay Soldiers Ministers received the government-commissioned report, which details electric-shock conversion therapy and other historic abuse of LGBT veterans, more than a month ago. (Bloomberg) -- A damning report into the homophobic treatment of gay British military personnel shouldn't be "left on the shelf", UK veterans minister Johnny Mercer said Tuesday, even as he declined to commit to an apology. [Extracted from the article]

Sunak went on: he had picked up the pieces after his predecessor Liz Truss brought the UK economy to the brink of catastrophe, and his focus on fighting inflation was preventing disaster with little political upside, they said. (Bloomberg) -- In a Downing Street office last week, under the glare of chandeliers and a big television screen, a flash of frustration burst across Rishi Sunak's face during a conference call. [Extracted from the article]

UK Climate Progress Runs Off Track as Target Dates Draw Closer While there is substance to Goldsmith's accusations - the government's own climate advisers criticized its record just two days ago - there's also a sense he quit before he was pushed. (Bloomberg) -- Climate Minister Zac Goldsmith quit Rishi Sunak's UK government on Friday with an excoriating broadside against the prime minister's environmental credentials, just a day after he himself was criticized by a Parliamentary panel. [Extracted from the article]

A final decision on whether it will be Sunak or a more junior minister such as Defense Secretary Ben Wallace or Veterans minister Johnny Mercer who will make the apology to the House of Commons hasn't yet been made, the people said. (Bloomberg) -- The UK government plans to apologize in Parliament for the historic treatment of gay veterans as soon as next week, following a damaging probe detailing a "culture of homophobia" that pervaded the British military for decades. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- The UK is weighing options to blunt the cost of post-Brexit border checks on European food imports due to start in January over fears they could exacerbate the country's inflation problem. Inflation in the UK has defied the BOE's efforts to rein in prices, prompting the central bank to unexpectedly raise interest rates by half a percentage point last week. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Rishi Sunak tried to bat away his latest crises in Parliament on Wednesday as he often does, declaring how his Conservative Party is "delivering" for Britain. During his exchange with Starmer, Sunak listed government efforts to help people, before concluding with what the prime minister sees as his own best political argument against the Labour leader: "That is the difference between us. Thames Water Crisis Exposes "Broken Britain" Danger for Sunak. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- UK Labour Party Leader Keir Starmer made a pitch to Scottish voters, vowing to create tens of thousands of clean energy jobs as he unveiled plans to make Britain a "clean energy superpower" by 2030. Labour leads Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservatives by a double-digit in the polls, and the SNP's woes gives Starmer the opportunity to take upward of 20 seats north of the border that could be crucial in his bid to become prime minister in a general election that's widely expected next year. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- The House of Commons on Monday began work on addressing the mounting wave of misconduct across Westminster that's included multiple allegations of sexual abuse and harassment against MPs in recent years. Mordaunt told MPs late Monday that there are more than 12 different bodies who oversee the conduct of MPs, creating an "incredibly complicated standards landscape.". [Extracted from the article]

LGBTQ veterans had hoped the report, which urges Sunak to apologize for their treatment, would be published in time for an event in London on Thursday evening with former military personnel and the chairman of the independent review. (Bloomberg) -- Veterans who were victims of homophobia in the British armed forces say Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's government is taking too long to publish a damning report on the historic treatment of LGBTQ people in the military. [Extracted from the article]

LGBTQ veterans hoped the report, which urges Sunak to apologize for their treatment, would be published in time for an event in London on Thursday evening with former military personnel and the chairman of the independent review. (Bloomberg) -- Veterans who were victims of homophobia in the British armed forces say Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's government is taking too long to publish a damning report on the historic treatment of LGBTQ people in the military. [Extracted from the article]

Military personnel were still being referred to doctors for conversion therapy as recently as the 1990s, according to anonymous testimony in a government-commissioned review seen by Bloomberg and slated for publication next month. (Bloomberg) -- Gay British soldiers were subjected to electric shock treatment in an effort to "cure" them of their homosexuality, according to a damning investigation into historic homophobia in the UK armed forces. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt says he's in favor of higher interest rates to tackle inflation, even if it causes a recession. When asked if he's comfortable with the Bank of England potentially triggering a recession in its fight against stubbornly high inflation, Hunt told Sky News "Yes, because in the end the inflation is a source of instability.". [Extracted from the article]

Gay and Trans Veterans Faced "Culture of Homophobia" in British Military, Report Says One of its core recommendations is for Sunak to make a public apology in Parliament for the historic policy, according to people familiar with the matter who said the premier's office has received the submission. (Bloomberg) -- Prime Minister Rishi Sunak should apologize for the UK's treatment of gay and trans veterans, according to a government-commissioned review that details a "culture of homophobia" that pervaded the British military for decades. [Extracted from the article]

(Updates with footage of vehicle, police search in second paragraph.) Armed officers arrested the man on suspicion of criminal damage and dangerous driving, and inquiries are ongoing, the Metropolitan Police said on Thursday on Twitter. (Bloomberg) -- London police said they arrested a man after a car crashed into the gates of Downing Street, the road that's home to UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. [Extracted from the article]

Sunak Warns Against "Blanket" Protectionism to Counter China The UK is taking a more "targeted and specific" approach in areas where China poses the greatest threat to its economic security, the British prime minister Sunak told the London Defence Conference on Tuesday. (Bloomberg) -- Rishi Sunak warned against Group of Seven nations descending into "blanket" protectionism in an effort to tackle China's economic threat. [Extracted from the article]

While the BMA said it was willing to continue talking and expects to meet Health Secretary Steve Barclay on Wednesday, the government said strikes must be paused in order to continue negotiations. (Bloomberg) -- Junior doctors in England will stage another 72-hour walkout over pay, as they warn of a summer of industrial action after talks with the government broke down. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- The UK government is lobbying the European Union to delay Brexit-related local manufacturing requirements after the maker of Vauxhall and Peugeot cars warned the rules may lead to factory closures. The rules stipulate that 45% of an electric vehicle's value must be sourced in the UK or Europe from 2024 to avoid export tariffs of 10% - a burden for UK automakers selling cars abroad. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- The UK and Switzerland are kicking off negotiations for a new free trade agreement to boost the exchange of services between the two countries post-Brexit. Britain is Switzerland's third-most important trade partner for services, with the exchange totaling around 23 billion francs ($26 billion) annually. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- The UK's main opposition Labour Party will pledge to reinstate local housing targets to spur construction as it tries to claim political territory vacated by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservatives. Sunak's government dropped plans for mandatory construction targets in the face of a rebellion by rank-and-file Tory members of Parliament last year, even though it was already falling far short of its pledge to build 300,000 new homes a year. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- The UK government will launch a series of reviews into the fairness of food supply chains just as the country's antitrust regulator separately probes the cost of groceries with double-digit inflation continuing to push up prices. Read More: UK Egg Crisis Shows Food-Supply Crunches That Won't Go Away UK inflation has remained stubbornly high as consumers have seen the sharpest jump in food prices since 1977. [Extracted from the article]

Switzerland is the UK's 10th biggest commercial partner, with bilateral trade totaling about £53 billion ($66 billion) a year. (Bloomberg) -- The UK and Switzerland are kicking off negotiations for a new free trade agreement to boost the exchange of services between the two countries post-Brexit. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- The UK will be able to fund a 2 percentage-point income tax cut if the government can lure hundreds of thousands of people who left the workforce during the Covid-19 pandemic to return, a key lieutenant of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said. Work Just Doesn't Pay for Thousands of People in Sunak's Britain "If we get all those back into work, it would increase the size of the economy by about 0.2%", Stride told reporters. [Extracted from the article]

EU Lawmakers Call on UK to Scrap Rosebank Oil Field Plan Regulators are yet to give final consent for Rosebank, which Equinor would develop under an existing license. (Bloomberg) -- Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the UK will need fossil fuels for the "next few decades" as the UK moves to eliminate net greenhouse gas emissions, after being urged to oppose Equinor ASA's Rosebank oil field project in the North Sea. [Extracted from the article]

Starmer has "done a pretty good job pulling the Labour party back from where it was", Blair, who led the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007, said in a Bloomberg TV interview on Tuesday. (Bloomberg) -- Keir Starmer shouldn't be complacent about his UK Labour Party's prospects in the next general election, even after winning hundreds of seats in last week's local vote, former Prime Minister Tony Blair warned. [Extracted from the article]

Starmer has "done a pretty good job pulling the Labour party back from where it was", Blair, who led the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007, said in a Bloomberg TV interview on Tuesday. (Bloomberg) -- Keir Starmer shouldn't be complacent about his UK Labour Party's prospects in the next general election, even after winning hundreds of seats in last week's local vote, former Prime Minister Tony Blair warned. [Extracted from the article]

His view was backed by Joe O'Neill, CEO of Belfast Harbour, who told Bloomberg the political freeze "hasn't stopped" his company "pushing ahead with our investment plans." Biden's special envoy for Northern Ireland, Joe Kennedy, has pointed to the more than 230 American firms employing over 30,000 people in the region already, with the cyber-security industry particularly looking to expand there. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- The most senior civil servants in the UK Business Department intervened to protect their staff after officials raised concerns about what they described as former minister Alok Sharma's volatile and intimidating behavior. Most people Bloomberg spoke with acknowledged that the department and Sharma himself were under particularly intense pressure during the pandemic. [Extracted from the article]

Repairing Relations The UK has made little progress since leaving the EU in securing agreements for how its lucrative financial sector interacts with its largest trading partner. (Bloomberg) -- A long-awaited agreement between the UK and the European Union on the future of financial services could be signed off by European officials as soon as June, according to people familiar with the matter. [Extracted from the article]

Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden will chair another meeting of the government's emergency committee Wednesday afternoon, said Blain, Sunak's spokesman. (Bloomberg) -- The UK has evacuated about 300 people from Sudan, the Prime Minister's Office said, as Rishi Sunak defended the pace of his government's efforts to help some 2,000 citizens flee fighting in the country. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- The UK is seeking to curtail a two-day strike by nurses planned for the end of the month by taking court action to declare it unlawful. The RCN's rejection dealt a major blow to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's bid to end a series of damaging strikes within the country's struggling National Health Service. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- No stranger to a crisis, Northern Ireland geared up to celebrate this month as US presidents past and present flew in to join British, Irish and local leaders marking 25 years of peace since the region's violent "Troubles." Neither is met fully by the terms of the Brexit deal, which was signed first by Prime Minister Boris Johnson before the EU and Sunak reached an agreement to ease post-Brexit rules on Northern Ireland. Sharing the stage at an anniversary event this week in Belfast, the Ulster Unionist Party, who like the DUP campaign to protect Northern Ireland's position in the UK, accused it of "trampling all over democracy.". [Extracted from the article]

Both the UK and EU have made clear there will be no more negotiating, though the British government has promised upcoming legislation will provide assurances to unionists about Northern Ireland's place in the UK. Sharing the stage at an anniversary event this week in Belfast, the Ulster Unionist Party, who like the DUP campaign to protect Northern Ireland's position in the UK, accused it of "trampling all over democracy." (Bloomberg) -- No stranger to a crisis, Northern Ireland geared up to celebrate this month as US presidents past and present flew in to join British, Irish and local leaders marking 25 years of peace since the region's violent "Troubles.". [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- The UK economy is yet to feel the worst impacts of Britain's divorce from the European Union, senior business leaders said, in spite of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's recent efforts to smooth relations with the bloc. Sunak's Britain Is Starting to Have Second Thoughts About Brexit And for O'Leary, Britain's demographics also point to the possibility for relations with the EU to improve further, because of the older age profile of those who voted for Brexit. [Extracted from the article]

Sunak's Britain Is Starting to Have Second Thoughts About Brexit And for O'Leary, Britain's demographics also point to the possibility for relations with the EU to improve further, because of the older age profile of those who voted for Brexit. (Bloomberg) -- The UK economy is yet to feel the worst impacts of Britain's divorce from the European Union, senior business leaders said, in spite of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's recent efforts to smooth relations with the bloc. [Extracted from the article]

When Sharma's alleged calls to staff's homes failed to stop, two of the people said that senior officials started coming into the office during lockdown to draw his criticism away from junior staff working from home. (Bloomberg) -- Even as UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak braces for a report on whether his second-in-command bullied staff, he's facing new allegations that a former Cabinet minister from his party berated civil servants. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's bid to end a series of damaging strikes was dealt a major blow on Friday when UK nurses rejected the government's latest pay offer and announced more walkouts that will further undermine the country's struggling National Health Service. Teachers have also rejected recent government pay offers, while Sunak's administration is yet to hold formal meaningful discussions with doctors, whose demand for a 35% pay increase the government has dismissed as excessive. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- A UK union representing health care workers accepted a government pay deal, boosting Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's efforts to draw a line under months of strikes that have crippled the National Health Service. Teachers have rejected a recent government pay offer, while Sunak's administration is yet to hold formal meaningful discussions with doctors, whose demand for a 35% pay increase the government has dismissed as excessive. [Extracted from the article]

Biden has also shown little interest in negotiating a free trade agreement with the UK, which had been seen by London as a potential benefit of Brexit. (Bloomberg) -- US President Joe Biden navigated sensitive issues of identity that divide Northern Ireland, and even dangled the carrot of major investment if its peace process endures and power-sharing government is restored. The DUP's anxieties about Brexit and Northern Ireland's place in the UK "are not something that can be changed by anything that the president can say", she said following Biden's speech. [Extracted from the article]