Hints and tips:
...The stars finally aligned for Fink when BlackRock approached GIP this autumn about a combination, DD’s Antoine Gara and the FT’s Brooke Masters report....
...David Valler, professor of planning at Oxford Brookes University, who is publishing a forthcoming paper examining the failure of politicians to sell the Arc to the public, said the project was emblematic...
...He joins from Osborne Clarke, where he has been a partner since 2009....
...The coalition was soon managed day to day by a quartet of Mr Cameron, George Osborne, Nick Clegg and Heywood, united as economic liberals in its central policy of fiscal retrenchment....
...Multiple measures in George Osborne’s “omnishambles” Budget in 2012 were later reversed, while Mr Hammond’s own planned increase in National Insurance contributions for the self-employed was quickly scrapped...
...Foroohar The Future of Europe — FT columnists present their visions for the continent What you’ve been saying New dimension to the job security/flexibility debate — letter from Pritam Singh, Oxford Brookes...
...The “golden era” in Anglo-Chinese relations so confidently proclaimed by Mrs May’s predecessor as prime minister, David Cameron, and his chancellor, George Osborne, is looking tarnished....
...Brooke Masters Whatever you think about today’s levels of executive pay, it is worth keeping in mind what has happened to two US efforts to crack down on big packages....
...Like Gordon Brown before him, George Osborne cannot resist the temptation to fiddle....
...George Osborne, chancellor of the exchequer, has oddly enough been lucky that UK productivity has been so poor....
...brooke.masters@ft.com...
...In 2012, he wrote one of three restructuring plans for Royal Bank of Scotland ordered by Chancellor George Osborne. He recommended that £110bn of non-performing assets be split off into a bad bank....
...In 2016, diesel’s share will shrink so fast that it will outweigh the growth in the overall car market.Brooke Masters Will Brent crude end the year over $50? Yes....
...In 1962, Henry Brooke, the Conservative home secretary, spoke of “two nations developing geographically, a poor north and a rich and overcrowded south”....
...“The idea that Carney is somehow a soft touch on regulation is very wide of the mark,” said one aide to Mr Osborne....
...Mr Osborne’s pension surprise is a timely reminder to investors that corporate warnings about risk are more than just boilerplate. brooke.masters@ft.com...
...The sale of Land Registry, Ordnance Survey and Royal Mint are also mooted. 1986: Peter Brooke, minister of state at Treasury, complains about failure of European partners to tackle the EEC’s ballooning...
...An extra 30,000 places will also be made available this year as a precursor to chancellor George Osborne’s abolition of all quotas from September 2015....
...George Osborne promised that the plan, coming in to force in two years’ time, will get rid of the “cap on aspiration” which means that a smaller proportion of teenagers in Britain go to university compared...
...Dr Brooke Magnanti, author of The Sex Myth – and pseudonymously of various memoirs of her time as a sex worker – is not impressed with the ONS’s methodology. “Why not ask escorts themselves?...
...Mr Osborne was also sceptical of the calls for an increase in the influence of independent voices at the two financial regulators that were created in April....
...Mr Osborne responded, “Of course, if there is unacceptable pressure, I absolutely say that that is not acceptable – if that is the right way to put it....
...Mr Osborne’s letter to Sir Mervyn also urged FPC members to co-ordinate their speeches and opinions....
...Annette Brooke, Lib Dem MP for Mid-Dorset and north Poole, told the FT: “I’m going to be looking every inch of the way into this,” she said....
...Earlier this week, George Osborne, the chancellor, said he was considering splitting RBS into a “good bank” and a “bad bank”, to split off soured loans built up before the financial crisis....
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