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...Pro-Russia candidate Peter Pellegrini was elected president of Slovakia, consolidating the grip of Robert Fico’s ruling coalition....
...“A payday loan of a budget designed to get a hand-to-mouth government from here to the election” was how the FT’s UK chief political commentator Robert Shrimsley characterised it....
...Need to know: UK and Europe economy Sir Robert Chote, the chair of the UK Statistics Authority, admonished ministers for making potentially misleading claims about the level of personal taxation in Britain...
...Trump will be cheered by news that the biggest donor of rival candidate Ron DeSantis — the space-exploring property baron Robert Bigelow — is considering backing him....
...The exercise, says UK chief political commentator Robert Shrimsley, shows a government running on fumes....
...So let’s sell Darren Jones. Lucy Fisher Robert. Robert Shrimsley So I think after much hesitation and delay I’m gonna buy Nigel Farage this week....
...Robert Armstrong in his Unhedged newsletter (for Premium subscribers) argues that markets are generally bad at assessing geopolitical risk....
...Sunak’s strategy makes opposition leader Keir Starmer the real election issue, says UK chief political commentator Robert Shrimsley....
...The rebuke by Sir Robert Chote, chair of the UK Statistics Authority, came in a letter to Labour MP Dame Angela Eagle in response to her concerns about the claims....
...Anti-Ukraine former prime minister Robert Fico is set to try to form a coalition government after winning Slovakia’s elections, potentially joining Hungary in undermining western unity in helping Kyiv in...
...Germany’s deputy chancellor Robert Habeck proposed increased scrutiny of Chinese direct investment in critical sectors such as semiconductors and artificial intelligence....
...Meanwhile former Lord Chancellor Sir Robert Buckland called for “a root-and-branch review and a change to the nature of HMRC”....
...The results suggest Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has much more work to do in separating himself from his predecessors Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, says UK chief political commentator Robert Shrimsley....
...“All of a sudden we weren’t decentralised,” said Darren Cohen, co-head of growth equity. “We have a structure that can compete.”...
...As UK chief political commentator Robert Shrimsley notes, the attempt by Hunt and his boss Rishi Sunak to emphasise fiscal prudence is not made any easier by noises off from Tory colleagues — especially...
...The announcement comes days after chief executive Darren Woods told the FT that the UN climate talks have focused on renewable energy for too long....
...Send your own observations to: robert.armstrong@ft.com and ethan.wu@ft.com....
...Robert Shrimsley Yeah....
...Premium subscribers can check out commentator Robert Armstrong’s stocks to watch in 2023....
...Yes, say Erik Lindqvist, Robert Östling and David Cesarini, who studied lottery winners in (again) Sweden....
...And there is no costume more traditional, or more stagy, for people in power than the costume of indifference, such as that worn by FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, writes Robert Armstrong....
...That was how commentator Robert Armstrong summed up the reaction to another quarter of declining revenues at Facebook’s parent company, but the sentiment could equally be applied to most of its Big Tech...
...Chief UK political commentator Robert Shrimsley says some Tory MPs may believe it is better for the time being to pretend that Hunt, and not Truss, is in charge and see how far it takes them....
...Moreover, the speed at which the change is taking place is astonishing, writes Robert Armstrong in today’s Unhedged newsletter (for Premium subscribers)....
...Darren Mott, chief executive of the Conservative party, said the “whole party” wanted to thank Elliot for this “tireless work” over the past three years....
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