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    • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
      National Health Service
      Rising attrition rate for NHS workers shown in study

      Many doctors, nurses and other staff who enter professional training never join full-time workforce, Nuffield Trust finds

      2 hours ago
      Nurses on ward
    • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
      Labour Party UK
      Labour says it will not strip private schools of charitable status

      Party officials shift focus to making independent schools pay VAT and business rates in event they win power

      School children walk down stairs
    • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
      Global Economy
      Oilfield approval reignites debate over UK’s green transition

      Also in this newsletter: Trump troubles, HS2 hullabaloo, flying taxis

      Protests against Rosebank oil field
    • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
      Pensions
      UK savers continue to raid pensions as inflation takes its toll

      £4bn withdrawn between April and June this year

      Workers walking to work with the City of London in the background
    • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
      Robert Shrimsley
      Rishi Sunak’s new strategy exposes 13 years of Tory failure

      Any attempts at reinvention are hampered by a governing record the prime minister can’t escape

      Illustration of Rishi Sunak, Boris Johnson, Theresa May and David Cameron sat on a tiny train
    • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
      InterviewLondon mayoral election
      ‘I am Marmite’: Tory mayoral hopeful tries to win over Londoners

      Susan Hall will not be deterred by controversy over past remarks on social media

      Susan Hall
    • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
      Inside Politics
      Will Lib Dems capitalise on spotlight come election time?

      Bruised leader Ed Davey tells personal tale in conference speech, while in US Braverman winks to Tory right flank

      Ed Davey raises his right hand on stage at the gathering
    • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
      UK agriculture
      Farming subsidies trigger row over future of British countryside

      The government’s post-Brexit subsidy regime has left some farmers with less money than before

      Helen Drinkall, a livestock farmer from Chorley, Lancashire
    • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
      HS2
      Greater Manchester mayor proposes compromise on HS2 rail line

      Burnham says northern leg could be delayed if government commits to east-west route

      Trains at Manchester Piccadilly station
    • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      High-speed trains and the crashing of Britain’s credibility

      Dropping a chunk of HS2 would undermine the country as a place to do business

      An artist’s impression of an HS2 train. HS2 is not just a solution on passenger capacity but has become vital to Britain’s net zero goals
    • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
      UK immigration
      Braverman questions UN treaty’s definition of refugee persecution

      UNHCR insists convention is ‘as relevant as when it was adopted’ after UK home secretary calls for reform

      Home secretary Suella Braverman makes speech on immigration at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington
    • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
      Liberal Democrats UK
      Lib Dems set out plans to speed up cancer treatment in England

      Ed Davey proposes legal right for patients to start medical care within 62 days of urgent referral in highly personal conference speech

      Sir Ed Davey addressing the Lib Dem conference in Bournemouth
    • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
      Inside Politics
      Davey’s defeat on conference floor crushes Lib Dem hopes of abandoning housing target

      Also in this newsletter, what this means for the future of a Labour-Liberal Democrat arrangement, and Sunak’s possible inheritance tax overhaul

      Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey
    • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
      UK manufacturing groups hit out at Sunak’s U-turns on net zero pledges

      Trade associations criticise uncertainty created by ‘huge setback’ to industry planning

      Internal components of a Sunamp heat battery at the Sunamp factory in Tranent, UK
    • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
      ExplainerUK tax
      The calculations behind Sunak’s potential inheritance tax shake-up

      Though unpopular, IHT is paid by few in UK and revenue lost would have to be made up for elsewhere

      Montage including a house and pound notes
    • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
      Airbus SE
      Indonesia vows to sue UK over Airbus corruption probe settlement

      Jakarta unhappy it was shut out of British share of €3.6bn deal after helping Serious Fraud Office with investigation

      A Garuda Indonesia Airbus A330
    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      Lib Dems vow to knock down Tory ‘blue wall’ in south of England

      Ed Davey’s party accused of watering down policies to pander to Conservative voters

    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      EU trade
      Germany leads push to delay electric vehicle tariffs between EU and UK

      Berlin and carmakers back UK call for three-year pause on requirement for batteries to be produced locally

      A BMW i4 electric car on display at a BMW showroom in Berlin
    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      LexEuropean banks
      UK banks/Basel 3.1: locals rule on international regulation Premium content

      BoE postpones implementation of new rules by six months to July 2025

      A pedestrian walks past the Bank of England
    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      Electric vehicles
      Nissan boss says world ‘needs to move on’ from combustion engine

      Makoto Uchida’s intervention comes after UK pushes back dates for ban on sale of new petrol and diesel cars

      Makoto Uchida
    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      Cricket
      English cricket to gain own regulator in push to combat racism and sexism

      Package of measures, including higher fees for female international players, comes after damning report

      England’s Nat Sciver-Brunt batting during an international cricket match in Leicester this month
    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      Liberal Democrats UK
      Lib Dems receive £1mn donation in boost to election war chest

      Funding comes as party targets rural Conservative seats in next year’s polls

      Liberal Democrat merchandise on sale at the party’s annual conference
    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      Inside Politics
      Why the Liberal Democrats are worth watching

      Also in this newsletter, controversy after Chris Kaba shooting investigation has provoked questionable responses from Scotland Yard and Home Office

      Ed Davey gestures to a clock which says ‘time’s up for Rishi Sunak’
    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      Toby Nangle
      The government must not make the Pensions Regulator a lame duck

      Politicians should not forget that we all have a stake in a functioning pensions market

      Liz Truss addresses parliament from the speaker box
    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      Financial & markets regulation
      UK to delay implementing global banking reforms

      Bank of England will set back some Basel III reform rules but disappoint banks by reducing phase-in period

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