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The future of Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ and the UK redesigns its banknotes

58 min • 4 juli 2025

US Congress votes on Trump’s “big, beautiful bill”. Plus: the Mercosur-EU trade deal that was years in the making. Then: what would you put on the UK’s banknotes?

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