内容摘要：The cost of washing machines in the US rose 12% or by about $86, after Trump hit foreign-made machines with a 50% tariff during his first term. Such increases, no matter how modest, run counter to Trump's promises during the campaign to bring down the cost of living.

The cost of washing machines in the US rose 12% or by about $86, after Trump hit foreign-made machines with a 50% tariff during his first term. Such increases, no matter how modest, run counter to Trump's promises during the campaign to bring down the cost of living.

If that party has more MPs than all the other parties put together - called a Commons majority - it forms the government. The party leader automatically becomesThat is what happened at the last general election in 2019, when the Conservatives won 365 seats, giving the party a majority of 80, and Boris Johnson continued as PM.

In 2010, unusually, no party won a majority, so the Conservatives - who had the most MPs after the election - invited the Liberal Democrats to share power in a coalition government.Since the beginning of the election campaign,Criticising the current voting system, Mr Farage said on Sunday that the party was likely to get fewer seats than the "number of votes should deserve." He added: "We're likely to see a Labour Party with not a particularly high share of the vote but a massive number of seats.”

Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey also wants a different voting system. Last week he told the BBC if that also meant seeing more Reform MPs “so be it”, as his party believed in “fair votes”.Meanwhile, the Green Party of England and Wales

they see as winnable under the current system.

Smaller parties have long argued they are particularly disadvantaged under first-past-the-post which, they say, means millions of votes are not reflected in the make-up of the House of Commons.to delay its decision until he takes office to enable him to seek a "political resolution".

His lawyer filed a legal brief with the court that says Trump "opposes banning TikTok" and "seeks the ability to resolve the issues at hand through political means once he takes office".That came a week after Trump met TikTok's chief executive, Shou Zi Chew, at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

On Monday, two Democratic lawmakers, Senator Edward Markey and Representative Ro Khanna, also called on Congress and the President Joe Biden to extend the 19 January deadline.During a Supreme Court hearing last week, justices appeared