Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rishi Sunak will on Tuesday seek to face down rightwing Tory rebels by pushing ahead with his controversial Rwanda bill, despite calls for him to pulp the legislation and come back with a more robust
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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 chief executive of Signa Group’s two most important subsidiaries has been fired because of alleged “gross violations” of his duties at the crisis-stricken European luxury property conglomerate. Timo Herzberg, an appointee and ally of
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Emmanuel Macron’s government was dealt a humiliating defeat in the National Assembly as opposition parties united to block its long-promised immigration reform from coming to debate on the floor. Lawmakers who usually have little in
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. As Conservative MPs battled over Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda bill ahead of a vote on Tuesday, legal and other experts said the legislation was already the most drastic response to immigration in decades. Sunak’s efforts to
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned the US that any wavering it its support for Kyiv would bolster dictatorships around the world, as American funding for Ukraine’s defence against Russia is set to lapse by
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A draft agreement from the UN’s COP28 climate summit has dropped references to the phase out of fossil fuels after opposition from oil and gas-producing countries led by Saudi Arabia. The document — which will
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Only three things seem certain today: death, taxes and rising carbon output. The second can, however, reduce the inevitability of the third. That theory backed the development of the EU’s emissions trading scheme (ETS). Though
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rishi Sunak defended former prime minister Boris Johnson and his handling of the pandemic on Monday as the serving premier gave evidence to the official Covid-19 inquiry for the first time. Revelations from the inquiry
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Israel and Hamas are bitter enemies. But they also agree on some things. Neither the government of Israel nor Hamas has any real interest in a “two-state solution” to the Israel-Palestine conflict. And neither side
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Nigel Farage on Monday dismissed speculation he would join Britain’s ruling Conservative party with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in charge but the leading Brexit campaigner did not dismiss the possibility of returning to politics next
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK government’s Rwanda bill provides only “a partial and incomplete solution” to legal challenges to its asylum seeker policy, lawyers representing right-wing Tory MPs have said, in a blow to Rishi Sunak. A so-called
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Monetary policy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Leading central banks are preparing to push back at investor predictions of how quickly interest rates will fall, as they meet for the final time this year amid strong employment numbers. Investors have been betting
The Bank of England faces a particularly stubborn inflation problem that may stop it from cutting interest rates as sharply as peers next year, investors have warned, as the central bank prepares for its final policy meeting of 2023. The Monetary Policy Committee is widely expected to say on Thursday that it is keeping its
For more than 650 days in a row, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has given at least one video address to the nation — praising his troops, celebrating advances along the front lines and reaffirming resolve in the face of Russian aggression. The message is always “we’re moving forward”, with the aim of maintaining optimism at
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Utilities myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. One test in journalism is whether you can successfully explain the story you are writing to your mother. In business leadership, it is whether you stand a chance of explaining yourself to a parliamentary committee who
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Financial services myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. When I started my career as a financial journalist in the new year of 1987, a few City gents still wore bowler hats. As I prepare to retire at the end of the year, neck
Donald Trump said he will not appear in court on Monday to testify in the civil fraud trial brought by the New York attorney-general. “I have already testified to everything & have nothing more to say . . . I will not be testifying on Monday,” the former president on wrote on Sunday on social media in all
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK’s small business lobby has asked the country’s top financial regulator to intervene over “harsh” banking practices that it says are forcing entrepreneurs to put their homes at risk unnecessarily. The Federation of Small
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the US politics & policy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Nearly half of American voters think the US is spending too much on aid for Ukraine, according to a poll that underscores the fragility of domestic support just as Volodymyr Zelenskyy prepares to
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is braced for a testing cross-examination on Monday when he makes his first appearance before the UK’s official inquiry into the coronavirus pandemic. The inquiry has heard damning testimonies in recent weeks, which have exposed chaos at the heart of the government as it struggled to respond to the rapid spread
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It is the sort of extravagant territorial claim that makes authoritarian leaders salivate. A demand to annex two-thirds of a much smaller neighbour’s territory, supposedly to right a historical injustice. Access to a rich offshore