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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The EU will speed up its attempts to set up a maritime corridor for humanitarian aid from Cyprus to Gaza, after US President Joe Biden warned Israel against using aid as “a bargaining chip”. A
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Former UK prime minister Theresa May has become the latest Conservative MP to announce they will step down in the coming general election. May, who served as premier for three years between 2016 and 2019,
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US President Joe Biden delivered his final State of the Union address before November’s presidential election on Thursday night, in a pugnacious speech to a joint session of Congress aimed at jump-starting his re-election bid and laying out his legislative agenda. The Democratic president made no explicit mention of his likely Republican opponent, Donald Trump.
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There is a lot to be said for low expectations. Proof that Joe Biden cleared them was that his State of the Union speech was criticised by opponents for being too “amped up”. That is
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Second-home owners looking to sell a property, middle earners with children, investors with a spare £5,000 and, potentially, people moving overseas for at least a decade are among the few who gained from this week’s Budget. Pensioners, owners of furnished holiday lets, “non-doms” and the wealthy will all see their finances take a hit from
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I’m hard-pressed thinking of what chancellor Jeremy Hunt could have said on Wednesday that would have made me cut short a mountain bike ride in the South Downs in order to ring my stockbroker. Indeed, save for the introduction of pension tax limits in 2006, I struggle to remember any British government decision that affected
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. This article is part of the FT’s Financial Literacy and Inclusion Campaign Just when you thought your child-rearing years were behind you, the UK’s childcare crisis comes along to take another bite out of the more
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Should UK company bosses be paid more like their US counterparts? Concerned about their ability to attract and retain talent and Britain’s corporate competitiveness, many boards and investors are now increasingly willing to benchmark executive
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