Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world President Donald Trump is set to nominate Brett Matsumoto, a longtime economist at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, to lead the agency responsible for some of the US government’s most important economic data … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The former Prince Andrew remained in touch with Jeffrey Epstein long after he had previously claimed to have broken off contact and suggests he had met after his conviction for underage prostitution more often than … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Sir Keir Starmer wraps up a four-day visit to China on Saturday, attacked by Donald Trump for his “dangerous” liaison with Beijing, dubbed “Sir Kowtow” in the right-wing press and accused by opponents of coming … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. UK ministers are working to resolve an anomaly in the Renters’ Rights Act that would otherwise leave hundreds of thousands of private tenants having to pay stamp duty in the coming years. Under new legislation … Read more
The UK housing minister has argued that house prices will fall in the long term as the government encourages developers to compete on volume and deliver more homes. A housing strategy due in the coming weeks will encourage alternative business models to those used by large developers, as well as a bigger role for the … Read more
Sir Keir Starmer has vowed to use a summit with the EU this summer to further unwind Brexit, arguing that Britain must move closer to the single market, even at the expense of accepting Brussels’ rules. The prime minister said Britain would use the summit, expected in May, to explore new ways to tear down … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Nik Storonsky, the billionaire co-founder of Revolut, has listed the UK as his country of residence, three months after regulators raised concerns when his family office erroneously changed his address to the United Arab Emirates. … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world The US Department of Justice on Friday released more than 3mn pages of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, saying it has concluded a review of the files that have exposed the late child … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Jeffrey Epstein sent £10,000 to Lord Peter Mandelson’s husband, Reinaldo Avila da Silva, in 2009, according to emails published by the US Department of Justice, raising fresh questions about the friendship between the disgraced financier … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. China is lifting its travel ban on MPs and peers who criticised the country’s human rights record and will allow all British parliamentarians to enter the country, Sir Keir Starmer has announced. Starmer said the … Read more