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...It was the first step in a decision-making vacuum that Theresa May’s former Europe adviser Raoul Ruparel eloquently describes here in the UK in a Changing Europe oral Brexit archive....
...Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empress in Her Timeby Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, translated by Robert Savage, Princeton University Press £35/$39.95 Ruler of the Habsburg empire from 1740 to 1780, Maria Theresa...
...From Mickalene Thomas’s bedazzling, sought-after paintings of female figures to the ornate, glitzy tapestries of Ebony G Patterson, it has become a go-to for bleeding-edge emerging artists....
...The funds including a £3.7bn one run by M&G, a £3.3bn L&G fund and a £2.8bn Janus Henderson fund — have been better able to cope with outflows than in 2016 because they have maintained large holdings of...
...philip.stephens@ft.com This article has been amended to correct a reference to the G-7. Japan is already a member; South Korea is a potential addition....
...Why is Theresa May still in office?...
...Investment house M&G also chimed in to warn of “danger” in the UK government bond market....
...Theresa May decided that we must have what we voted for and invoked Article 50....
...Joanna Cherry: revocation (motion G) First round: 184 in favour, 293 against, 161 abstentions This motion has been rewritten since Wednesday to win over the support of Labour MPs....
...The moves come as the race to succeed Theresa May as Conservative leader — and UK prime minister — looks likely to be won by a hard Brexit supporter, with Eurosceptic Boris Johnson leading the field....
...But almost all agree on one thing: there is no one better than Theresa May to negotiate with the EU....
...This would be the first such in-person meeting since President Donald Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping agreed to a trade truce late last year on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina...
...But Mr Johnson, the favourite to succeed Theresa May and become the next occupant of 10 Downing Street, will be aware that in 54 years of these contests, almost every frontrunner has come to grief....
...G-Funk The head of Germany’s cyber security agency tells the FT that he backs a “no spy” deal with China rather than banning Huawei from helping to build the nation's 5G network....
...Bronwen Maddox defends Britain’s civil servants, who she says have been exposed to unfair criticism by Theresa May’s Brexit approach....
...“When the history books are written . . .” said Theresa May in the Commons this week. I can’t remember what she said next....
...The building in which your correspondent sits has just been sold by Pearson, the Financial Times’ former owners, to M&G for £115m. That’s 28 per cent above the asking price....
...The ad threatens to damage D&G’s reputation in the world’s largest luxury market....
...“Both sides have indicated their willingness to negotiate on trade,” said Lena Komileva at G+ Economics....
...“[The new plan] is really trying to say, it’s not just about the G. We’ve got to incorporate the E and the S.” Next year might not be so quiet after all....
...Britain’s imperial and Commonwealth connections made the UK sceptical of European integration, but its 1950s “Plan G” (Plans A-F were jettisoned) for a bespoke free-trade area privileging British interests...
...Answers: a)7; b)3; c)5; d)1; e)2; f)4; g)6. But what’s depressing is the fact you didn’t even need to check, did you?...
...Instead it was a humiliation for Theresa May and her party, which lost its majority. Polling reliability is a pressing question because the UK could face another election this year....
...“But without the US you effectively have a G-Zero because a club of six middle-ranking powers is not, of itself, that relevant.”...
...Theresa May to change planning rules to boost housebuilding Tuesday Ashtead Ashtead Group releases third-quarter results....
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