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Christopher McKeon

Christopher McKeon is a political reporter covering Westminster for PA Media. He has worked as a local political reporter for the Liverpool Echo and a general reporter for the Surrey Advertiser, and has also spent time working in Nairobi.

Sir Keir Starmer said he expected the trade deal with the US to be implemented ‘within a very short time’ during Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday (Alberto Pezzali/PA)

Deal on US steel tariffs to be in force ‘in a very short time’, says PM

Donald Trump exempted the UK from a 50% tariff on steel imports, keeping the levy at 25% until a trade deal agreed between the two countries is implemented (David Dermer/AP)

Government ‘confident’ it can implement US deal in time to protect steel sector

<p>Clean-up operations at Sellafield are not progressing quickly enough, MPs say</p>

UK’s most hazardous building still leaking radioactive water, MPs warn

<p>Sellafield was described as ‘the most hazardous building in the UK’ </p>

Report lays out ‘failure’ at nuclear power plant