Trump's Iran conflict to complicate UK budget, minister warns

As Donald Trump's military campaign against Iran sends oil prices and inflation rippling across the Atlantic, Britain's new prime minister Andy Burnham prepares to meet the American president at the United Nations — carrying both the weight of economic consequence and the memory of sharp words once spoken. The encounter in New York is a reminder that alliances are not built on agreement alone, but on the harder work of finding common ground despite it. For Chancellor John Healey, the budget he must now construct is shaped not only by domestic choices but by a conflict Britain chose not to join