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...More banking news: New York Community Bank will raise more than $1bn in a deal led by the investment firm of former US Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin. 2....
...A legal stand-off between Donald Trump and one of his former business partners comes to a head later today, with a vote set to determine whether or not the former US president can unlock a potential $3.5bn...
...After visiting Bahrain, where the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet is stationed, the defence secretary will stop aboard the USS Gerald R Ford aircraft carrier, currently in the eastern Mediterranean, and also travel...
...England’s greenbelt: The sacrosanct land around cities is at the centre of a politically fraught debate about the UK’s housing shortage....
...Israel-Hamas war: US secretary of state Antony Blinken returns to the Middle East to push for a deal to secure a temporary pause in fighting and the release of hostages held by Hamas....
...On the face of it, praising Thatcher seems an odd way for Labour to try to win back 50 red wall seats in the Midlands and north of England....
...Former Salesforce chief executive Bret Taylor will lead the new-look board as chair. Former US Treasury secretary Lawrence Summers has also been drafted in to provide experience....
...Iran’s navy said it acted on court orders in retaliation for “oil theft by the US regime”....
...Richard Tice, leader of Reform, said Anderson would be a “no nonsense” champion for the red wall, the swath of traditionally Labour-voting constituencies in the Midlands and north of England, many of which...
...Andrew Bailey, Bank of England governor, said Darling was “a dedicated public servant in the very best sense” who “steered the British economy ably during a time of great uncertainty”....
...in England....
...Rachel Reeves, shadow chancellor, on Tuesday pledged a Labour government would aim to borrow only to invest, echoing the fiscal rules of former Labour chancellor Gordon Brown....
...But the agency, which is known as the R&AW, suspected Khan of sheltering extremists in Europe and waited for him to leave England on a trip to his hometown before it struck....
...Let me note the words of Donald Trump, the former and potential future president of the US, who seemed in the past week to encourage an attack on fellow members of Nato that had failed to meet the requirement...
...Labour has overturned large Tory majorities to win two by-elections in England, in a relief to Keir Starmer following a challenging fortnight....
...But allies of Reeves, a former Bank of England economist, argued that the key theme of the book was about how women economists had shaped the shadow chancellor’s thinking, and strongly denied plagiarism....
...The writer, a former secretary of state for culture, media and sport, is vice-chancellor of University of the Arts London In the late nineties, Britain banished gloom and pessimism to rebrand as Cool Britannia...
...For two decades, the council has struggled to unlock a huge former industrial site in Barrow opposite BAE for housing, due to the high cost of land decontamination and the low onward sale value of homes....
...how “impartial” that secretary of state can really be....
...The announcement means UK prime minister Rishi Sunak is now facing two challenging by-elections this autumn, given the recent departure of former culture secretary Nadine Dorries as MP for Mid Bedfordshire...
...Sterling was also stronger ahead of the Bank of England rate-setting meeting that starts today. Read more on the latest UK inflation data....
...One of many hard choices awaiting any new government in Westminster. Britain after Brexit is edited by Gordon Smith....
...Like Drax, the former home secretary Priti Patel is supporting legal challenges against the use of a former military base near her constituency in Essex to house migrants....
...It is a phenomenon that former UK prime minister Gordon Brown, Nobel laureate Michael Spence, Reid Lidow and I analyse in a new book Permacrisis....
...But the Bank of England’s current projection is for GDP growth of just 0.25 per cent this year, 0.75 per cent in 2025 and 1 per cent in 2026 — well short of the kind of pick-up needed to swell tax revenues...
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