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...Hedge funds have begun to circle, with Elliot taking a 5 per cent stake in the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust a week after it announced a £1bn share buyback in an attempt to prop up its share price....
...Shaking up the IOC’s “solidarity” model risks opening Pandora’s box, according to former IOC marketing director Michael Payne. “The money is there,” he said. “The question is how it’s distributed....
...Quintessentially has attracted scrutiny in part because of the high profile of Elliot, its founder, who is a close ally of Boris Johnson and the nephew of the new Queen Consort....
...Sebastian Payne is the FT’s Whitehall editor....
...Stuart Payne, chief executive of the North Sea Transition Authority, the industry regulator, said it was an “important day”....
...party since Elliot took over responsibility for fundraising....
...Sebastian Payne And when you hear what Frances O’Grady was saying, she’s saying it’s not just about the spike in inflation we’ve got at the moment....
...Past and present co-exist here as Elliot Cowan, representing all Jude’s abusers, regularly invades the space and hauls him back to those horrors....
...But Frances O’Grady, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, criticised Truss’s proposals, saying the right to industrial action was an important British freedom....
...Presented by Sebastian Payne, with George Parker, Chris Giles and Sarah O'Connor. Produced by Anna Dedhar and Howie Shannon. The sound engineers were Breen Turner and Jan Sigsworth....
...sebastian.payne@ft.com...
...Quintessentially, the concierge company founded by UK Conservative party co-chair Ben Elliot, is searching for its third auditor in three years after a breakdown in relations with BDO....
...Three under secretaries — Neil O’Brien, Lee Rowley, and Alex Burghart — have also stepped down, according to a resignation letter signed by the five MPs....
...Shortly after 2pm five ministers quit simultaneously, including Kemi Badenoch, the rightwing equalities minister, and Neil O’Brien, a former Treasury adviser to ex-chancellor George Osborne....
...Rhona O’Connell, analyst at StoneX, said it was not clear whether the sanctions imposed on Potanin, who owns 36 per cent of Norilsk, would extend to the company but “under common practice, it usually does...
...“Inflation is not being driven by nurses and care workers wanting enough pay to keep food on the table,” said Frances O’Grady, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress....
...Presented by Sebastian Payne, with George Parker, Chris Giles and Sarah O'Connor. Produced by Anna Dedhar and Howie Shannon. The sound engineers were Breen Turner and Jan Singsworth....
New visa scheme for those fleeing the war comes after criticism of UK’s initial response
...Michelle O’Neill, the region’s first minister-in-waiting from Sinn Féin, wrote on Twitter after speaking with Johnson on Tuesday that “the public here can’t be a pawn in the British government’s game of...
...(MPs shouting) [MUSIC PLAYING] George ParkerWelcome to Payne’s Politics, your essential insider guide to Westminster from the Financial Times with me, George Parker, in the hot seat vacated by Seb Payne...
...Presented by Sebastian Payne, with George Parker, Chris Giles and special guests Frances O'Grady and Tony Danker. Produced by Howie Shannon. The sound engineers were Persis Love and Jan Sigsworth....
...Responding to Dodds’ intervention, the Conservative party said Elliot’s co-chair role was “entirely separate from his other interests”....
...Political correspondents Jim Pickard and Sebastian Payne explain who’s who in the new “unity cabinet”....
...Around him, Elliot Levey and Sharon Small, both excellent, play everyone else, bringing shape to characters who are coloured by Halder’s memories of them. It’s a demanding play....
...Sebastian Payne, Jasmine Cameron-Chileshe and Jim Pickard have an indispensable write-up of the day’s moves with a series of pen portraits of the new government’s key players both behind the scenes and in...
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