Keir Starmer and Donald Trump today signed off a UK-US trade deal at the G7 summit in Canada.

The two leaders then presented the deal, revealing that the UK aerospace sector will face no tariffs at all from the US, while the auto industry will have 10 percent tariffs, down from 25 percent.

UK correspondent Enda Brady says this will come as good news for the UK's auto industry - and jobs will be saved as a result.

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Farmer confidence remains at a near-record high, according to the latest Rabobank Rural Confidence Survey.

Farmer confidence in the broader agri-economy was unchanged at a net reading of +44 percent following consecutive lifts in the previous three quarters.

The Country's Jamie Mackay unpacks the survey results further.

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Food prices increased 4.4 percent in the 12 months to May 2025, following a 3.7 percent increase in the 12 months to April 2025, according to figures released by Stats NZ.

Higher prices for the grocery food group and the meat, poultry and fish group contributed most to the annual increase in food prices.

Infometrics Principal Economist Brad Olsen unpacks the factors behind this data.

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Tonight on The Huddle, Ali Jones from Red PR and Ali Jones from Maxim Institute joined in on a discussion about the following issue of the day - and more!

Minister Chris Bishop has given the green light for the demolishing of the Gordon Wilson Flats after stripping them of their heritage status. What do we make of this?

Why do we think most of Gen Z aren't interested in pursuing leadership positions anymore? Do they lack ambition?

Is it fair to allow employers to sack highly paid workers without the proper process?

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One expert has warned China has lost trust in New Zealand as a trading partner - and it could impact the current FTA.

Prime Minister Chris Luxon is leading a trade delegation to China, with a meeting with China's President Xi Jinping set to take place this coming Friday.

Mahon China Investment Management CEO David Mahon says Luxon's sending over a modest delegation over a short timeframe - and it's sending the wrong message to China.

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The Government has unveiled new changes for Employment Relations Act aimed at improving labour market flexibility - but it's raised some concerns.

One of the proposed changes includes introducing an income threshold of $180,000 above which a personal grievance for unjustified dismissal cannot be pursued.

Director and Head of Practice at Jennifer Mills & Associates, Jennifer Mills, says this threshold seems 'arbitrary'.

"I would have thought that all employees would have the right to access these grievance protections - what's worse is somebody who earns over $180,000 doesn't have a right to have any information about the decision to terminate their employment and they don't even have an opportunity to respond to a proposal."

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I'll tell you what I'm gonna be watching with some interest in the next few weeks - that employment bill that ACT has just introduced to Parliament that would make it a lot easier for employers to fire staff who earn more than $180,000 because those high earning staff would not be able to take personal grievance cases for justified dismissal.

Now, I say high earning with air quotes, because while yes, these people do earn a lot more than the average wage, I don't think that they earn so much that they can be considered, I don't know, rich pricks and treated so callously as to simply fire them without them having any recourse.

Many of these people, I think, will probably be raising families - because you don't earn $180,000 plus if you're in your early 20s, do you?

These are people who are in management, maybe even in upper management, and I'd imagine that they've got families to feed and families to look after, so I imagine these people would be amongst the most stressed if they could just lose their jobs all of a sudden.

I think ACT is taking something of a political gamble here, because I would have thought that this is a case of ACT screwing over some of its own voters.

Because remember, ACT does well in well-heeled places like Epsom, which is where people earning more than $180,000 a year live.

Now, I'm not sure what's made ACT feel like they have to do this, because it's not as if there has been this huge public debate about how people on $180,000 plus have been terrible employees who need to have their employment rights stripped.

And if anything, this is just going to provide work for lawyers because people on this kind of money will have the means, and if they have families to feed, the motivation as well, to litigate, and I suspect that they will.

So I'm very keen to see if ACT actually goes through with this part of its plan, because from where I'm sitting, this just looks like a really weird idea with more downsides than upsides.

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