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Rail
England’s train operators brace for further budget cuts
...Norman Baker, a former transport minister who now works with the pressure group Campaign for Better Transport, criticised demands for further cost savings....
December 28, 2023
HM Revenue & Customs
Jeremy Hunt orders UK tax agency to reverse plan to cut number of helplines
...The influential House of Commons Treasury select committee — whose chair Harriett Baldwin had described HMRC’s plans as a “great shame” — welcomed the U-turn, saying “common sense has prevailed”....
March 20, 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
US Treasury bonds
Looking for trouble in Treasuries
...As such treasuries are making room for the extra supply. We’ll wait and see if it triggers any issues anywhere....
August 4, 2023
Transcript
Transcript: Labour’s worst nightmare?
...So I don’t see it being a sort of a huge factor at the next election, apart from, as Robert was saying, this idea that he becomes this agent for sowing division in the Labour party....
March 1, 2024
News in-depthLabour Party UK
Five times Keir Starmer has changed tack on policy
...In the run-up to the UK general election, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is braced for repeated claims by his political opponents that he has “flip-flopped” and “U-turned” on countless policies....
September 6, 2023
Leadership
It was Singaporean SWF supremacy at the FT Alphaville Pub Quiz — but how would you have done?
...A: The Treasury Department Bitcoin ETFs were approved by the SEC on January 10. How long, in weeks, did it take before the converted Grayscale Bitcoin Trust closed at a premium to NAV?...
April 10, 2024
FT Live
Future of the Car
The technology and new business models shaping the next decade in automotive
Tuesday, 7 MaySancroft, Paternoster Square, London EC4M 7DQ, UK
News in-depthHS2
How Rishi Sunak decided to slash the UK’s troubled HS2 rail project
...The scrapping of large sections of HS2 is the completion of a dream of Downing Street adviser Andrew Gilligan and former Downing Street aide Dominic Cummings, both of whom tried and failed to persuade their...
October 5, 2023
NatWest Group
How Nigel Farage forced out NatWest chief
...A Treasury spokesperson said that the decision was “made by the NatWest board and Alison Rose. The NatWest board is responsible for the bank’s strategic and operational management.”...
July 26, 2023
News in-depthAlison Rose
NatWest’s ‘sure touch’ chief Alison Rose forced to quit over Farage error
...After joining Royal Bank of Scotland as a graduate in 1992, she held roles including chief executive of its commercial and private banking division — the department that then included Coutts, the bank for...
July 26, 2023
UK politics
Veteran picked as top Treasury mandarin in Truss U-turn
...Jill Rutter, a former senior Treasury official, said Bowler and the other appointments “are from the spending and tax side” of the department and there was little experience with international finance and...
October 10, 2022
Cryptofinance
Is the US trying to kill crypto’s decentralised finance?
...The U-turn is a blow for a crypto industry in desperate need of a win, especially after last year’s market crisis killed off once-trusted bellwethers such as FTX and Celsius. Read more here....
July 21, 2023
Transcript
A new chancellor and another U-turn for Truss
...And as George was saying, it began with this news that instead of going for a disrupter in the Treasury, Liz Truss did decide to bring in someone who had 20 years of Treasury experience....
October 15, 2022
Montenegro
Montenegro’s young guard aims to speed up EU accession
...Although Moscow has denied those claims, the US Treasury department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control has described “Russian financial support to a Montenegrin political party ahead of Montenegro’s 2016...
May 28, 2023
News in-depthLiz Truss
Market turbulence pushes Liz Truss to the brink
...“The idea that the prime minister can junk her ‘mini’ Budget and her chancellor without taking responsibility herself is for the birds,” said one former minister. “She is first lord of the Treasury....
October 13, 2022
UK regional policy
Truss’s ‘investment zones’ face hit over government plans to cut tax breaks
...Street urged the government not to U-turn on its promise to provide the business rates retention for a quarter of a century, saying: “If you have 25 years you can make game-changing investments.”...
October 18, 2022
FT Live
Infrastructure Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean
Identifying opportunities for investors and asset managers
Wednesday, 12 June237 Park Avenue, New York, NY, USA
UK politics
Rebel Tory MPs accused of staging ‘coup’ against Liz Truss over tax plan
...In a sign of the acrimony engulfing Prime Minister Liz Truss’s Conservative party, Braverman said she was disappointed that former cabinet minister Michael Gove and other MPs had forced a U-turn on the tax...
October 4, 2022
The Big Read
After years of false dawns, can Britain realise its nuclear ambitions?
...People familiar with GBN say the launch has been delayed by a dispute between the Treasury and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) over funding and its scope....
January 19, 2023
Conservative Party UK
Truss tries to rally MPs amid Tory infighting
...Grant Shapps, former transport secretary, told The News Agents podcast that it was possible the Conservatives could change leader again if Truss “does badly”....
October 4, 2022
News in-depthUK politics
Truss finally admits defeat on tax benefit for the wealthy
...The risk for Truss and Kwarteng is that those Conservatives hoping to destabilise the new government — some with a view to replacing it — might now try to force a U-turn on other parts of the prime minister...
October 3, 2022
LexJonathan Guthrie
The Lex Newsletter: Credit Suisse bank run brings down an avalanche Premium content
...The employee-owned business comprises department stores and the Waitrose groceries chain....
March 24, 2023
News in-depthUK politics
Liz Truss shows a newfound belief in economic orthodoxy
...And at the Treasury, which Truss previously refused to rule out breaking up, the prime minister made a last-minute U-turn and decided not to appoint an outsider as its new permanent secretary....
October 10, 2022
UK politics
‘Seeking hope’: MPs reflect on Liz Truss’s calamitous Tory conference
...Michael Gove, the former cabinet minister, has emerged as a rebel leader....
October 5, 2022
UK politics
Truss is still ‘in charge’, insists new chancellor Hunt
...In an article for the Sun, Truss said: “We are going to do things differently and chart a new course to growth, it remains the core mission of this government.”...
October 16, 2022
Donald Trump
Trump refuses to answer questions in New York state probe
...The former US president’s comments followed a search of his Mar-a-Lago property in South Florida by FBI agents on Monday as part of a separate investigation....
August 10, 2022
Transcript
Rishi Sunak’s ‘questionable radicalism’
...And although the Department for Levelling Up still exists and Michael Gove still exists as the secretary of state who’s in charge of it, as you say, it’s not something that you hear a huge amount about....
October 5, 2023

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