Receive free The FT View updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest The FT View news every morning. In an alternative universe, Rishi Sunak might have been at the UN General Assembly in New York this week promoting UK leadership on climate change. Instead, the prime minister stayed home
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Receive free Instant Insight updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Instant Insight news every morning. It’s easy to portray Rishi Sunak’s decision to dilute some net zero policies as simply a depressing, cynical move to create a wedge with Labour. It comes not long after the Conservatives won
Receive free Climate change updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Climate change news every morning. UN secretary-general António Guterres has told world leaders that they are still “decades behind” in moving away from fossil fuels as he launched a scathing critique at the UN’s inaugural climate ambition day
India’s spy agency dubbed it Operation Hornet. As Abdul Khan went into his house in Lahore, Pakistan, in June 1987, he was gunned down by two men on a motorcycle. The hit against the London-based Pakistani national was the result of months of planning by India’s foreign intelligence service the Research & Analysis Wing, according
Rishi Sunak’s anticipated delay in banning the sale of new petrol and diesel cars has prompted a backlash from the UK automotive industry, which warned it would undermine investment certainty. The UK prime minister’s expected shift of the target from 2030 to 2035, which was noted in automotive boardrooms across the world, has cast uncertainty
The UK car industry has strongly criticised prime minister Rishi Sunak for considering moving back a ban on new petrol and diesel cars to 2035 from 2030, saying it threatens the UK’s international leadership and the industry’s efforts to pivot to EVs. “Ending emissions from road transport is the only way you will achieve net
Receive free UK politics updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK politics news every morning. Since Brexit, the Conservative party has been “doubling down on a shrinking demographic”, its voter base is “diminishing one funeral at a time” as it bets “on the past against the future”. So
Receive free UK politics updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK politics news every morning. Ford has criticised anticipated moves by the UK government to delay its net zero efforts, even as home secretary Suella Braverman attacked previous government commitments as “arbitrary”, “punitive” and “totally unrealistic”. Car manufacturers
Receive free Capital markets updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Capital markets news every morning. European stocks and Wall Street futures were higher on Wednesday, hours before the Federal Reserve is widely expected to leave its policy rate unchanged and deliver its latest set of short-term interest rate
Receive free UK inflation updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK inflation news every morning. UK inflation was lower than expected in August, falling to 6.7 per cent from 6.8 per cent in July, rather than increasing on the back of higher petrol costs. The drop in almost
Receive free Social affairs updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Social affairs news every morning. The writer, an FT contributing editor, is chief executive of the Royal Society of Arts I am suffering from PESD (post-examination stress disorder). This is a new condition — indeed, I have just invented
The United Auto Workers have shut down just three of Detroit carmakers’ roughly 70 factories or parts distribution centres across the US — a seemingly minimalist tactic the union believes will maximise its leverage at the bargaining table. What the UAW is calling a “stand up strike”, where union members at individual facilities walk out
Receive free UK infrastructure updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK infrastructure news every morning. When not writing this column, I am overseeing my own once-in-a-generation infrastructure project. As dust levels rise and bank balances fall, I am determined to relieve bedroom bottlenecks and improve cohabiting comfort while
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A top Uber executive has warned that Brussels’ proposals to designate gig workers as de facto employees will force its ride-hailing service to shut down in hundreds of cities across the bloc and raise prices
Receive free US interest rates updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest US interest rates news every morning. The Federal Reserve is set to maintain its benchmark interest rate at a 22-year high on Wednesday but signal that it remains willing to tighten monetary policy further as it debates
The £70bn price tag for Britain’s beleaguered High-Speed Rail 2 project is set to be revised upwards to account for inflation within months to a figure closer to £91bn, according to calculations by the Financial Times. The expected rise in the headline figure comes as UK prime minister Rishi Sunak and chancellor Jeremy Hunt are
Disney’s theme parks had a robust performance in 2022 as fans returned after Covid-19 closures, particularly in Shanghai © Aly Song/Reuters Disney said it would double spending on theme parks, resorts and cruise lines to $60bn over the next decade, sending shares lower despite a boost to the business segment that has driven profits over
Crispin Odey urged a woman he groped at the headquarters of his hedge fund to downplay the incident to the financial watchdog while it considered whether he should retain his regulatory approval as a “fit and proper person”. The woman, who is the 20th to come forward to the Financial Times with claims of sexual
Receive free UK politics updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK politics news every morning. Rishi Sunak was on Tuesday accused of presiding over a “slow motion car crash” as the prime minister prepared to delay crucial measures intended to turn the UK into a net zero carbon
Receive free War in Ukraine updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest War in Ukraine news every morning. US president Joe Biden called on world leaders to oppose early peace talks that would lead to the break-up of Ukraine, arguing that standing firm against Russia’s goal of winning a
Receive free Cboe Global Markets updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Cboe Global Markets news every morning. The chief executive of Cboe Global Markets has resigned after failing to disclose personal relationships with colleagues. Edward Tilly, who has been at Cboe for 35 years, “did not disclose personal