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  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    Exchange traded funds
    UK task force proposes excluding ETFs in event of early T+1 move

    If endorsed, and Britain moves to one-day settlement before the EU, UK ETFs would wait until the EU also moves

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  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
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    Make sure you are buying the dip not the freefall

    A behind-the-scenes look at the work of Rutherford Hall, critical communications strategist

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  • Sunday, 6 October, 2024
    UK business
    Uncertainty over UK government’s plans puts brakes on hiring

    Businesses freeze recruitment ahead of October 30 Budget, awaiting clarity on tax, business and employment policy

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  • Sunday, 6 October, 2024
    Sue Gray
    Sue Gray quits as Downing Street chief of staff

    Controversial aide to prime minister Keir Starmer will take new job as envoy for UK nations and regions

    Sue Gray arrives at an inquiry in Belfast
  • Sunday, 6 October, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    Reeves to spare PE bosses top UK tax rate in compromise on ‘loophole’

    Chancellor wants to raise revenue from pay through carried interest without driving investors away

    Rachel Reeves
  • Sunday, 6 October, 2024
    Work & Careers
    Revamping UK apprenticeships: Labour’s mountain to climb

    Keir Starmer has promised radical change after a decade in which training programme starts declined

    Jamie Clarke, maintenance apprentice at LISI
  • Sunday, 6 October, 2024
    News in-depthLabour party UK
    Starmer wields the knife after shaky first 100 days

    Chastened by fractious Labour conference, PM bids to draw a line under mis-steps and ‘get a grip’ on No 10

    Montage shows Sue Gray and Sir Keir Starmer against a Labour red background
  • Sunday, 6 October, 2024
    Conservative party UK
    Cleverly overtakes Jenrick in Tory leadership poll

    Contest to succeed Rishi Sunak blown open as Conservative MPs prepare to whittle down candidates

    Tory leadership hopefuls Kemi Badenoch, Robert Jenrick, James Cleverly and Tom Tugendhat standing together at the Conservative party conference
  • Sunday, 6 October, 2024
    UK politics lobbying
    Lobbyists access parliamentary emails using IT loophole

    Ex-aides able to log in to their old accounts months after leaving for lobbying firms

    The Houses of Parliament
  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    Henry Mance
    Leadership contests are what the Tory party does best

    At this stage in the cycle, the Conservatives don’t want to be normal, they want to be themselves

    From left, Tory leadership candidates Kemi Badenoch, Robert Jenrick, James Cleverly and Tom Tugendhat
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
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    Rachel Reeves vows to ‘invest, invest, invest’

    FT exclusive: Chancellor seeks to reassure investors that ‘guardrails’ will be placed around extra borrowing for investment

    Rachel Reeves meets workers during a visit to the Encirc Glass factory in Chester
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
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    London Euston station ordered to shut down giant advertising screens

    Transport minister demands changes to get a ‘grip’ on overcrowding

    A large crowd of people are gathered at Euston train station in north London. The prominent advertising board above them is switched off, with shops and platform signs visible in the background.
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
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    ‘Let’s be more normal’ – and rival Tory strategies

    Plus, Starmer kicks off UK-EU reset in Brussels

  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Camilla Cavendish
    In British politics, the centre no longer holds

    Real energy is to be found in single-issue groups and parties to the left and right of Labour and the Tories

    Illustration of a suited figure in the centre of the image holding binoculars and surveying a landscape of hands holding up megaphones. Some are red and some are blue
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    Wealth managers warn Reeves of pensions withdrawals rush ahead of UK Budget

    Increasing number of people are pulling money from retirement pots early because of tax uncertainty

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  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
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    Labour’s Budget: how will the UK secure economic growth?

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  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Q&AThe Big Question
    The Big Question: does age matter in politics? 

    This week, the FT asks readers whether they care about how old leaders are

    Joe Biden and Kemi Badenoch
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    FT MagazineRobert Shrimsley
    Ask Shrimsley: I’ve borked Britain. Is it time to write my memoirs?

    Yes, please do. Everyone is dying to know why it wasn’t your fault

  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Chagos Islands, British treatment and Tory rivalries

    Conservative leadership hopefuls attack Labour and clash over decision, though there is a historical irony in all this

    James Cleverly
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Only five MPs disclosed clothing gifts in past decade

    Register of interests indicates garment gifting not historically widespread

    A montage of Keir Starmer with a rack of clothing in the background
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    UK housebuilding
    Building new UK towns needs radical approach, says task force chair

    Michael Lyons says potential locations for housing developments will be identified next summer

    A person stands with a dog in a grassy field filled with yellow wildflowers, with new housing developments visible in the background at Trumpington Meadows, on the outskirts of Cambridge.
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    UK Autumn Budget 2024
    Pension tax breaks: what’s in the Budget line of fire?

    Analysts lay out the range of options at the chancellor’s disposal as Starmer warns of ‘decisions’ on the horizon

    Montage shows a crowd of workers, the HMRC logo, pound notes and a funeral casket
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    UK employment
    Labour’s new watchdog for workers will need real teeth, business warns

    Reforms to employment law could backfire unless the Fair Work Agency can make the rules stick

    UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaks at the Trades Union Congress annual gathering in September
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Conservative party UK
    Tory leadership rivals flag Cleverly’s role in Chagos Islands ‘retreat’

    Former foreign secretary has momentum ahead of key MPs’ vote next week

    James Cleverly at the Conservative party conference in Birmingham on October 3 2024
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Special ReportWatches and Jewellery: October
    Post-Brexit red tape proves a tangle for UK jewellery exhibitors

    From zealous customs officials to hallmarking rules, shows are becoming a hurdle too far for some British makers

    A jeweller is meticulously working at his bench, using precision tools to create or refine a piece of jewellery
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