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UK economy
Britain’s economic gloom has been overdone, says former UK Treasury official
...Referring to the electoral contest that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is expected to call in the second half of this year, Macpherson said in an interview with Radio 4’s Week in Westminster on Saturday: “It...
March 16, 2024
Conservative Party UK
Sunak struggles to maintain grip on power as 65th Tory MP calls it quits
...“It’s been a fucking difficult week,” admitted one ally of Sunak, reflecting on Number 10’s maladroit handling of a dispute over a leading Tory donor, Frank Hester....
March 16, 2024
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
Where the Financial Times weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
Property sector
Hunt draws up plans for 99% mortgage scheme
...Sunak said in a recent article in the Times that he “understand[s] people’s anger when that dream [of home ownership] feels too far away for too many, especially the younger generation”....
February 22, 2024
News in-depthUK politics
UK’s ‘technical’ recession is politically toxic for Rishi Sunak
...Business and consumer confidence also expanded with the closely watched S&P PMI survey indicating private sector activity grew at the fastest pace in eight months in January....
February 15, 2024
Markets InsightAdam Parker
How investors should navigate the slump in IPOs
...That euphoria has yet to be duplicated, though the IPOs in 2020 saw an average of 50 per cent first-day returns relative to the S&P 500....
January 11, 2024
Nuclear energy
Paris seeks UK loan guarantee after Hinkley Point nuclear plant costs soar
...S&P rates EDF as BBB compared with AA for French government bonds....
January 31, 2024
FT Live
Inside Politics: who will win the UK general election?
Exclusively for FT subscribers
Wednesday, 8 MayDigital Conference
UK politics
Sunak faces by-elections test as MPs return to Westminster
...Louise Haigh, shadow transport secretary, insisted the cancellation of HS2’s northern leg was “the exact opposite of the levelling up we were promised” and a sign of “chaos” in Sunak’s government....
October 15, 2023
HS2
Sunak runs the gauntlet with plan to axe northern leg of HS2
...HS2’s burn rate means it is scheduled to consume more expenditure per year than the Highways Agency’s renewals programme for the national road network or Network Rail’s capital programme on an annualised...
October 3, 2023
HS2
Labour casts fresh doubts over HS2 route north of Birmingham
...HS2’s price tag has more than doubled from the original budget of £33bn a decade ago when the line was originally envisaged to run from London to Birmingham before splitting into two sections to Manchester...
September 17, 2023
Conservative Party UK
Sunak under fire over plan to slash HS2 rail line
...The debate over HS2’s northern leg had become about “Britain’s ability to do the tough stuff successfully”, he said, and its “credibility as a place to invest”. “That’s what’s now at stake,” he added....
October 2, 2023
Executive Pay
FTSE 100 bosses given average 16% pay rises
...Chief executives of companies on the US S&P 500 index are paid far more than their UK counterparts, receiving a median of $14.1mn in 2022, according to an annual study published this month by labour union...
August 21, 2023
UK immigration
UK justice secretary hits out at lawyers ‘parading their politics’
...“In the last 10 years there’s been a growing and I think regrettable trend for lawyers to actively parade their politics and identify more with their clients,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme....
August 8, 2023
HTSI
Meet the weavers, knitters and designers recharging Ireland’s luxe economy
...These new Irish brands are following in the footsteps of the likes of Magee 1866, a fifth-generation family tweed-maker based in Donegal (Sarah Jessica Parker, who has a home in the county, is a fan), and...
April 25, 2024
ReviewAlbums
Peter Gabriel: I/O — an extravagant feast of an album
...I/O, standing for “input/output”, is his first set of new songs since 2002’s Up. Even by his standards, it’s a lavish undertaking....
December 1, 2023
UK politics
Britain to host first global AI regulation summit in autumn
...The AI meeting is a British initiative, taking place alongside the G7’s “Hiroshima AI framework”, which has been set up to co-ordinate global regulation of the new sector....
June 7, 2023
FT Live
Future of Asset Management Europe
New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence
Tuesday, 12 NovemberLondon, UK
ReviewNon-Fiction
Johnson at 10: The Inside Story — Brexit and buffoonery
...A new thought struck him: “Oh s**t, we’ve got no plan. We haven’t thought about it. I didn’t think it would happen. Holy crap, what will we do?”...
May 6, 2023
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit trading advantage lures packing giant
Ardagh’s investment in Belfast factory seen as vote of confidence in region’s protocol
November 19, 2021
Demographics and population
Ageing populations ‘already hitting’ governments’ credit ratings
...“We are well into the adverse effects in many countries, and they are only growing,” Parker added....
May 17, 2023
ReviewVisual Arts
What can the National Gallery offer Britain as it turns 200?
...As for levelling up, NG200’s “National Treasures” will send a dozen core paintings travelling. Caravaggio’s “The Supper at Emmaus” (1601) goes to Belfast, shown with Cornelia Parker’s films....
January 13, 2024
Arts
Films, theatre, art and music to look forward to in 2024
...And while Sex and the City’s other three players — Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davies — have all performed on the London stage in the past, Sarah Jessica Parker is about to make her West End...
December 25, 2023
Transcript
Does Rishi Sunak have an industrial strategy?
...Now whether it’s called an industrial strategy with a capital I, capital S, I’m less bothered about that, but I think there should be one....
May 19, 2023
Oil & Gas industry
The secretive Texas oil groups that are prime targets in M&A race
...“I would say they probably represent the best opportunity to ramp up by inventory with a deal with a private,” said Raoul LeBlanc, an analyst at S&P Global....
November 10, 2023
Inside Politics
Labour’s big moment to show change confronts an unexpected test
...Labour’s announcements are important of course, given that it is highly likely to form the next government (here’s George Parker and Rachel Millard on one of them)....
October 9, 2023
UK Government
Simon Case: can the head of Britain’s civil service survive?
...in October 2021 and as chancellor in July 2022, but on neither occasion did the former minister declare he was subject to a tax probe by HM Revenue & Customs, according to Sir Laurie Magnus, Number 10’s...
January 31, 2023
Brexit
Sunak hopes to seal Northern Ireland trade deal early this week
...George Osborne, former Tory chancellor, told Channel 4’s The Andrew Neil Show on Sunday that Johnson was “interested in becoming PM again” and would use any instrument to hit Sunak “over the head”....
February 19, 2023

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