Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Sir Keir Starmer on Friday saw his political strategy shattered and faced Labour calls to tack to the left after a historic Green Party parliamentary by-election victory further weakened the prime minister’s authority. The Green … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Senior Reform UK figures have defended Nigel Farage’s decision to select the divisive former academic Matthew Goodwin as his candidate for the Gorton and Denton by-election, after a loss to the Greens threatened to puncture … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ incoming chief economist has launched a review of visa routes to attract “highly talented” people to the UK as concern grows that the government’s clampdown on immigration will come at a cost … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Something profound just happened in British politics. In a corner of south Manchester, two populist parties have together garnered three-quarters of the vote. The Greens and Reform UK have come first and second in what … 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 More Americans sympathise with Palestinians than Israelis for the first time since Gallup began tracking the sentiment, according to a poll released on Friday. The shift comes after more than two decades of … 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 Washington has told non-emergency staff and family members that they can leave Israel, the US embassy in Jerusalem said on Friday, amid fears that a potential war between the US and Iran could … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Rachel Reeves will on Friday sign off a £1bn defence contract that will be crucial for the survival of Britain’s last military helicopter manufacturing site. Treasury officials said the chancellor was approving the contract with … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. OpenAI has closed a blockbuster funding round that could raise as much as $110bn and values the ChatGPT maker at $730bn, as the AI start-up tries to wrestle back its lead from rivals Anthropic and … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A senior Barclays executive and former Treasury official has been named as the chief supervisor for British banks and insurers, underscoring ministers’ drive to ease the regulatory burden imposed after the 2008 financial crisis. Katharine … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. British parliamentary by-elections are generally poor indicators of national contests but very good at giving you the state of the parties today. By that measure Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government has a great … Read more