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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is seeking to reset relations at home and abroad. During a visit Sunday to Edinburgh, that he billed as an “immediate reset” with the regional governments of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, Starmer said he would also seek to improve the U.K.'s “botched” trade deal with the European Union. “I do think that we can get a much better deal than the botched deal that (former Prime Minister) Boris Johnson saddled the U.K. with,” he said in reference to the pact negotiated after Brexit. […] Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds said Sunday on Sky News that...

Not even the food articles in the New York Times are a safe haven from liberal potshots. In a New York Times Magazine story this past Sunday, Jonathan Reynolds ostensibly recounted his trip to Norway to learn how to prepare scallops and other fish. But in the midst of his piece, he took a shot at President Bush's capital gains tax cut. Reynolds described the monkfish as "the poor man's lobster" and asserted: "If you see a whole monkfish at the market, you'll find its massive mouth scarier than a shark's. Apparently it sits on the bottom of the ocean,...