Masco Builder Cabinet Group

German business urges help for crisis-hit building industry

...At its two-day retreat in Meseberg palace last week, Scholz’s cabinet passed a €7bn package of corporate tax relief that included new rules on the depreciation of investment costs for builders....

September 3, 2023

UK politics

Sunak defeated in House of Lords over rules on river pollution

...“It is typical of the principles-free, conviction-free leadership that he has, to flip-flop and go from a builder to a blocker,” he said....

September 13, 2023

FT Live

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Colombia

Colombia’s finance minister ousted by leftist president

...A former member of the M-19 leftist guerrilla group, Petro was supported by a legislative coalition of traditional centrist parties and others from the left alongside his Historic Pact party....

April 27, 2023

News in-depthAukus

Aukus: How transatlantic allies turned on each other over China

...Naval Group, landed in Adelaide in February to headlines that Morrison had ordered a review of the Barracuda deal signed in 2016....

September 24, 2021

ReviewVisual Arts

Theaster Gates transforms the New Museum into an elegiac ‘wunderkammer’ — review

...Gates expands on that old model, turning the New Museum into a cabinet devoted to his own curiosity....

December 14, 2022

FT Magazine

No other investor has a life story quite as unbelievable as Li Lu

...But sitting there, positioned between the US billionaires and representatives of Chinese power, Li looked like the bridge builder he’d been spoken of as 20 years earlier....

September 7, 2023

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Does Rishi Sunak have an industrial strategy?

...This was a serving Cabinet minister. George Parker Mmm. Extraordinary....

May 19, 2023

FT CollectionsWar in Ukraine: economy and trade

Russia’s wartime economy: learning to live without imports

...Some builders involved in high-end construction have already tiled half their building, he says. “What to do with the other half? It’s not clear.”...

December 14, 2022

The Big Read

Labour’s fight to capitalise on Boris Johnson’s scandals

...“When focus groups watch footage of Keir they like what they see, they like the kind of guy he is, some watch him with a sense of relief,” says one ally....

February 23, 2022

Camilla Cavendish

Johnson delivers a flimsy package of anti-business boosterism

...It’s why he kept the lamentable Gavin Williamson in his Cabinet for so long — he wouldn’t cave in to media pressure....

October 8, 2021

The Big Read

Europe after Merkel: will Germany take a tougher approach?

...“She is a bridge-builder,” says one EU diplomat, who wonders whether Macron can play that kind of role after Merkel’s departure. “Does his character allow it? We hope so.”...

October 21, 2021

The Week Ahead

Brexit talks, ECB meeting, Japan leadership race

...Others this week include builders’ merchant Travis Perkins, packaging group DS Smith and rail and bus operator Go-Ahead....

September 6, 2020

News in-depthUK politics

Boris Johnson back to face one of ‘biggest calls of his career’

...Confidence in the UK economy has also dropped to the group’s lowest ever levels....

April 27, 2020

ReviewPolitical books

A Very Stable Genius — yes, we do need another White House exposé

...During his one-year tenure, Tillerson appeared to be something of a Washington stereotype: the private-sector fish out of water who struggled to transition from imperial CEO to bureaucratic consensus-builder...

January 31, 2020

FT Magazine

Belgium’s reckoning with a brutal history in Congo

...The company, which was part owned by a British group, was the world’s largest copper producer by 1929, the largest producer of cobalt by the 1960s....

November 13, 2020

FT Live

The Global Boardroom: 8th Edition

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Europe Express

Stuck in the middle of EU

...EU27 ambassadors and MEPs on the parliament’s Brexit steering group are due to meet on Wednesday afternoon to be debriefed on events....

October 23, 2019

Conservative Party UK

Philip Hammond warns Tory leadership hopefuls on no-deal Brexit stance

...Mr Gove, the Eurosceptic environment secretary, is casting himself as a bridge-builder in the race and is expected to present himself as a “unity candidate”....

May 26, 2019

Europe Express

Italy’s divided government delays EU budget reckoning

...Mercosaurus on the menu Commission officials and the Mercosur group of countries held meaty talks over dinner on Wednesday over finally completing a landmark trade deal....

June 27, 2019

FT Globetrotter

Postcard from . . . Stockwell: Van Gogh’s home opens to the public

...All of these will be displayed at the house in cabinets being assembled by a local furniture maker....

May 10, 2019

Interserve PLC

UK government to continue awarding contracts to Interserve

...If you were choosing a builder for your house, you wouldn’t pick the one that had loads of troubles and was about to go bust,” he said....

December 11, 2018

FT Confidential Research

The Philippines will continue to fail its slum residents Premium

...Even though builders of affordable homes are exempt from paying income and sales taxes, it is no longer an attractive business....

March 31, 2019

FT Magazine

Can France revive its industrial heartland?

...But inside one of these houses, builders are getting to work. They have knocked down the wall that leads into the tiny garden, a mass of debris, tarpaulins and overflowing wheelie bins....

December 13, 2018

News in-depthConstruction sector

Lack of political support doomed Carillion

...Many will now have to fight court battles to get paid at all, pushing many hard-pressed builders, electricians, and materials suppliers to the wall....

January 20, 2018

FT Opening Quote – Interserve on financial health watch

...At 1500 GMT, home builder sentiment is released by the National Association of Home Builders and is likely to have reached 72 in January....

January 17, 2018

The Big ReadJim Pickard

UK housing: a crisis in the Conservative heartlands

...Paul Miner, who manages the group’s campaigns about planning, says ministers need to do more to encourage builders to develop old urban sites instead....

April 10, 2018

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