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  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    FT MagazineRobert Shrimsley
    Ask Shrimsley: Am I a bad person for taking freebies?

    There are reasons to complain about the prime minister accepting gifts. The one thing it’s not is detached from normal people — most would do exactly the same

  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    Inside Politics
    How public perceptions haunt Tories and Labour

    New Conservative leader must reshape image, while Keir Starmer’s party seen as increasingly ‘extreme,’ poll finds

    Rishi Sunak speaking the day after the general election on July 4.
  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    Explainer
    Why is Keir Starmer under pressure over freebies?

    Prime minister and senior allies’ acceptance of gifts carries political risk for Labour

    Montage shows Keir Starmer and photographs of New York, clothing, spectacles and Arsenal football
  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    UK public finances
    Gilt investors urge Reeves to keep investment ambitions in check

    Markets on edge ahead of overhaul of fiscal rules that could result in tens of billions of pounds of extra borrowing capacity

  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    The State of Britain
    ‘You do just wonder what on earth they were doing’ Premium content

    Business frustration at Labour’s lack of preparedness for government

    Rachel Reeves
  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    News in-depthUK inward investment
    No Musk, more sponsors: UK races to finalise investment summit

    Organisers rush to pin down agenda, guest list and financial backers for October 14 event

    Montage shows Elon Musk, David Solomon and Keir Starmer
  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    Robert Shrimsley
    The British state is not fit for Starmer’s purpose

    Labour ministers find that their newly active government stands on atrophying limbs

    Illustration of Keir Starmer holding a sword with the words ‘After Hobbes’ in the bottom right corner
  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Why Keir Starmer’s freebies have cut through to the public

    Unless government can draw a line under the row, it will continue to suck up attention

    Keir Starmer
  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    How Keir Starmer can take back control

    Unforced errors and unanswered questions are undermining Britain’s Labour government

    Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and his chancellor, Rachel Reeves
  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
    UK politics
    Keir Starmer loses winter fuel vote in Labour conference backlash

    Non-binding ballot shows divisions remain within party

    General Secretary of Unite, Sharon Graham, voting on the winter fuel cut at the Labour party conference on Wednesday
  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
    Starmer struggles to fix morale at ‘weird’ Labour conference

    Prime minister’s plea for unity undermined by winter fuel payment vote and lingering worries about ‘unforced errors’

    The Labour party conference in Liverpool
  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
    Janan Ganesh
    The end of the popular politician

    A once-common type is vanishing from the west, and it is a problem of demand not supply

    Illustration of a podium and microphones with squashed tomatoes sliding down the podium and on the floor around it
  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Starmer reveals what needs to get ‘worse’ before it gets better

    PM points to disruption caused by building and hints at need to ‘properly fund policies’ ahead of expected tax rises in Budget

    Keir Starmer at Labour party conference
  • Tuesday, 24 September, 2024
    UK foreign policy
    Starmer will promise to ‘recommit’ Britain to internationalism at UN

    PM to seek meetings with Kamala Harris and Donald Trump while in New York for gathering of world leaders

    Keir Starmer
  • Tuesday, 24 September, 2024
    UK politics
    Starmer warns ‘unpopular’ decisions needed to ‘fix’ broken Britain

    PM says Labour is ‘proud to be the party of wealth creation’ in personal conference speech

    UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer gives his speech at the Labour party conference
  • Tuesday, 24 September, 2024
    UK prisons
    UK minister sets out plan to reduce number of female prisoners

    Early interventions will help divert women away from criminal justice system, says Shabana Mahmood

    Justice minister Shabana Mahmood speaks at the Labour party conference in Liverpool on Tuesday
  • Tuesday, 24 September, 2024
    UK energy
    GB Energy will be based in Aberdeen, says Starmer

    Decision is boon for Scottish city as industry warns of job losses from North Sea transition

    Aberdeen harbour
  • Tuesday, 24 September, 2024
    FT live news
    Keir Starmer’s speech to Labour conference: as it happened
  • Tuesday, 24 September, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Reeves sets apart Labour’s fiscal approach from the Tories’ and signals more borrowing

    Chancellor reaffirms party pledge to not raise income tax and national insurance

    Rachel Reeves
  • Tuesday, 24 September, 2024
    Starmer to argue tough decisions are needed for UK ‘national renewal’

    UK prime minister will say there are ‘no easy answers’ in speech to Labour party conference

    Keir Starmer speaks at the Labour party conference in Liverpool as he gestures his hands.
  • Tuesday, 24 September, 2024
    UK politics
    ‘Get a grip’: why has the Labour government been so bad at politics?

    Unforced errors in past few weeks point to lack of political judgment in Downing Street

    Montage shows Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and his chief of staff Sue Gray against a red background
  • Monday, 23 September, 2024
    Business welcomes UK ministers’ commitment to nurturing economic growth

    Executives applaud the government’s upbeat tone at Labour’s conference, but want to see more policy detail

    Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaks at the Labour party conference business day event
  • Monday, 23 September, 2024
    UK economy
    What are Rachel Reeves’s options for boosting public investment?

    Chancellor appears to be rethinking government’s fiscal approach to create more room for spending

    FT montage shows UK chancellor Rachel Reeves against photos of a water pipe, a railway line, the NHS logo and a wind turbine
  • Monday, 23 September, 2024
    UK government spending
    Reeves paves way for capital spending increase

    Speech at Labour party conference fuels debate over future of chancellor’s borrowing rules

    Rachel Reeves delivers her keynote speech at the Labour party conference in Liverpool.
  • Monday, 23 September, 2024
    UK economy
    Reeves to rule out return to austerity after gloomy rhetoric draws criticism

    Chancellor has warned of tax rises in October Budget but will adopt a positive tone in Monday’s conference speech

    Rachel Reeves listens to a speech at the Labour party conference in Liverpool
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