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Rishi Sunak last week declared it a “moral mission” to reform welfare in the UK, to cut the benefits bill and bring people with health conditions back to work. A post-pandemic rise of 850,000 in the number of people not working due to long-term sickness was economically unsustainable, unaffordable and unfair on taxpayers, the prime

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. BHP has proposed a takeover of Anglo American, in a deal that would bring together two global mining giants and rank as one of the industry’s largest transactions in years. BHP has made a proposal

Chipotle’s chief executive said he is focused on winning the battle for labour” in a tight job market where workers have “a lot of options.” Brian Niccol, Chipotle’s chief executive, told the Financial Times that he is thinking about how to make jobs at the company more attractive by providing unique benefits like English lessons,

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The Labour party has pledged to fully renationalise the passenger rail network within a first term if it wins the UK general election, as it promised sweeping reforms of fares to draw people back on

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Meta’s revenues jumped by more than a quarter in the first three months of the year, beating expectations, but its forecasts left Wall Street underwhelmed and the shares fell 10 per cent in after-hours trading

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Europe is less hard-working, less ambitious, more regulated and more risk-averse than the US, according to the boss of Norway’s giant oil fund, with the gap between the two continents only getting wider. Nicolai Tangen,

On a bright Tuesday afternoon, a masked young woman calling herself W stood beside the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” in the centre of Columbia University’s campus and decried the genocide being committed in Gaza by “the violent, Zionist settler entity”. “Today, in the Gaza Solidarity Encampment, we are in high spirits. We are united in our

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. The US secretly agreed to send a long-range missile system to Ukraine in February, reversing a decision to withhold the weapons that some in the White House feared could dangerously escalate the war with

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has announced he is considering quitting on the day a judge opened a preliminary corruption investigation into his wife. In an extraordinary letter to the country published on Wednesday on

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A Russian court has ordered the seizure of JPMorgan Chase funds totalling $439.5mn a week after Kremlin-run lender VTB launched legal action against the largest US bank to recoup money stuck under Washington’s sanctions regime.

Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. President Joe Biden signed a highly anticipated $95bn foreign aid bill on Wednesday, triggering a move by the Pentagon to rush $1bn in new weapons to Kyiv from US stockpiles, including much-needed air defence

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Boeing burnt through almost $4bn of cash in the first quarter, reflecting slower 737 Max production and compensation to customers as the US plane maker grappled with the aftermath of the mid-air accident in January.

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. If there is anything close to an iron law in politics it is that people will not vote for parties that do not seem to like them. Yet Britain’s Conservatives often seem to dislike much

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. KPMG has revoked job offers to some foreign graduates in the UK after the government tightened visa rules for overseas workers in an effort to cut record immigration. The Big Four firm, one of the

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Watch carefully and you can see the Republican party forming a circular firing squad. The trigger was last weekend’s much delayed vote for $61bn in Ukraine aid. Republicans were divided almost evenly. The difference between

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. JPMorgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon said the US economy was “booming” but warned that he was “on the cautious side” of there being a soft landing. In a wide-ranging interview on Tuesday at the

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Schroders has kicked off a search for a successor to its chief executive Peter Harrison, who is preparing to retire as the boss of the UK’s largest asset manager after eight years. The £750.6bn FTSE

In the last week of February, a large billboard appeared across the street from Mike Johnson’s home church in Benton, Louisiana. “For such a time as this,” it read, quoting a Bible verse alongside an image of a damaged Baptist church in Berdyansk, Ukraine. It addressed Johnson by name. The advertisement was paid for by

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Can there be too much transparency? The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority is under pressure to pause plans to name companies when it opens investigations. At present, it only does this in exceptional cases. Unsurprisingly, the

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Brussels has raided a Chinese security equipment supplier, deploying new anti-foreign subsidy powers in a move that will further inflame tensions between the trading superpowers ahead of a planned visit by President Xi Jinping to

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Diamonds may be forever but they are also seriously on sale. Natural rough diamond prices have collapsed 26 per cent in the past couple of years. Tepid US and Chinese demand for diamond jewellery hasn’t