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• Hammond to lay out plan for ‘global financial partnerships’

  20-06-2018 23:35 via ft.com
  New post-EU deals aimed at markets such as China, India, South Korea and Australia
  
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• Chancellor to promise a series of post-Brexit financial partnerships

  20-06-2018 23:30
  Philip Hammond will use speech to outline a plan for striking deals outside the EUThe government plans to safeguard London’s position as the world’s leading financial centre after Brexit by signing a series of financial partnerships with non-EU countries. Philip Hammond will use his keynote Mansion House to the City’s elite on Thursday to say that the government intends to strike deals outside of the single market that will make the UK a gateway to financial markets. Continue r
  
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• Theresa May casts doubt on UK status as ‘tier one’ military power

  20-06-2018 22:38 via ft.com
  ‘Shockwaves’ at MoD as PM challenges defence secretary to justify spending plans
  
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• May casts doubt on Britain’s status as ‘tier one’ military power

  20-06-2018 22:38 via ft.com
  ‘Shockwaves’ at MoD as PM challenges defence secretary to justify spending plans
  
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• Northern rail: 'Emails warned of timetable chaos'

  20-06-2018 21:51 via bbc.co.uk
  An MP obtains e-mails showing officials discussing ways to deal with problems on Northern services.
  
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• Ailing MP wheeled into Commons in pyjamas criticises Tory whips

  20-06-2018 21:28
  Naz Shah says whips stripped her of her dignity by breaking with convention on absencesA Labour MP who discharged herself from hospital and attended parliament in her pyjamas in order to take part in a Brexit vote has accused Tory whips of stripping her of her dignity.Naz Shah, the MP for Bradford West, said parliamentary voting procedures were archaic and undignified after the whips refused her request to be paired with a Tory MP to cancel out each other’s vote – a practice that all
  
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• The art of the U-turn: May scrambles to avoid Brexit bill defeat

  20-06-2018 19:41
  The prime minister’s heavily dented authority takes yet another dinkAnother day, another Commons confrontation flunked. Theresa May has turned the last-minute swerve into an art form – and by persuading Dominic Grieve, if not all of his band of followers, to swing behind the government on Wednesday, she avoided yet another much-anticipated showdown.As so often in recent days, both sides of the Brexit civil war now raging in the Tory party declared victory. Continue reading...
  
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• May's delay over Trump visit backfires as US-EU divide grows

  20-06-2018 19:21
  PM is stranded while US president seems to revel in European leaders’ strugglesIf Theresa May thought her favoured weapon – delay – would somehow ensure Donald Trump’s visit to the UK next month would be less controversial than if it had occurred last year, she appears to have miscalculated. Six months ago the president was plausibly an unpredictable nationalist constrained by the senior Republicans surrounding him. He had quit the UN’s climate change agreement but
  
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• Theresa May snuffs out rebellion to win Brexit vote

  20-06-2018 19:20 via ft.com
  Pro-European Tory MPs back down ahead of crunch moment
  
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• Will there be a 'Brexit dividend'?

  20-06-2018 19:06 via bbc.co.uk
  It doesn't take into account extra spending associated with leaving the EU and potential economic impact
  
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• Liam Fox tells Laura Kuenssberg rebels have not changed Brexit stance

  20-06-2018 18:50 via bbc.co.uk
  Liam Fox tells the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg concessions to Brexit rebels will not "fundamentally" change anything.
  
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• Government wins key Brexit bill vote

  20-06-2018 18:34 via ft.com
  Theresa May facing pressure from pro-European Tory MPs
  
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• Guy Verhofstadt warns MPs of 'two decade' Brexit ratification

  20-06-2018 17:58 via bbc.co.uk
  The European Parliament's Brexit chief tells MPs the two sides must be clear about what they want.
  
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• Equalities office needs ‘permanent home’, MPs told

  20-06-2018 17:02 via ft.com
  Penny Mordaunt calls for continuity as brief is moved between departments
  
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• Immigration minister accused of misleading MPs over legal case

  20-06-2018 16:49 via ft.com
  Caroline Nokes denied that policy had been successfully challenged
  
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• London Mayor Sadiq Khan to seek second term

  20-06-2018 16:30 via bbc.co.uk
  The Labour politician confirmed his intention to stand again for mayor in 2020.
  
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• PMQs: Nandy and May on northern England rail services

  20-06-2018 15:37 via bbc.co.uk
  The Wigan MP asks the PM why the information had been withheld.
  
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• Figures 'so dodgy they belong on side of bus'

  20-06-2018 15:33 via bbc.co.uk
  Jeremy Corbyn challenges the PM over NHS spending figures.
  
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• PMQs: Hoare and May on upskirting bill and role of Chope

  20-06-2018 15:28 via bbc.co.uk
  The PM says a government bill on upskirting will be put forward on Thursday.
  
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• HS2 chief called to account over ‘robustness’ of budget

  20-06-2018 15:21 via ft.com
  High Speed Rail link accused of underestimating property purchases by up to £2bn
  
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• US child detention pictures disturbing - Theresa May

  20-06-2018 15:03 via bbc.co.uk
  The UK's prime minister says the US is "wrong" to hold children in what appear to be cages.
  
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• Three summits but no Brexit progress likely

  20-06-2018 13:43 via ft.com
  Weary negotiators in London and other EU capitals expect little from next week’s meeting
  
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• May: Trump UK visit to go ahead despite ‘deeply disturbing’ child detentions

  20-06-2018 13:43 via ft.com
  Detentions are “wrong”, PM says
  
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• Parliament given go-ahead to debate upskirting bill

  20-06-2018 13:33 via ft.com
  Theresa May intervenes after Tory backbencher objected to private members’ bill
  
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• UK immigration minister accused of misleading MPs over legal case

  20-06-2018 13:19 via ft.com
  Caroline Nokes denied that policy had been successfully challenged
  
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• The Brexit Files: how to solve the Irish border problem

  20-06-2018 13:12 via ft.com
  Irish border issue has dominated Brexit negotiations
  
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• 'Disastrous' copyright bill vote approved

  20-06-2018 13:05 via bbc.co.uk
  Critics call it a "dark day" as an EU committee adopts two controversial changes to copyright law.
  
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• UK logistics industry warns of Brexit ‘catastrophe’

  20-06-2018 12:49 via ft.com
  ‘Our patience is wearing very thin,’ says Freight Transport Association
  
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• Logistics industry warns of Brexit gridlock ‘catastrophe’

  20-06-2018 12:49 via ft.com
  Freight Transport Association says patience is wearing thin with government
  
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• Late night skullduggery: Govt using desperate tactics as meaningful vote battle climaxes

  20-06-2018 12:48
  
  Pretty grotty stuff is taking place as the vote approaches on 'Grieve 2'
  
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• Theresa May appeals to rebels over vote on EU withdrawal bill

  20-06-2018 12:36 via ft.com
  Pressure grows on pro-European Tory MPs to back down and spare PM a humbling defeat
  
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• Labour giving MPs free vote on Heathrow runway plan

  20-06-2018 11:18 via bbc.co.uk
  The party has to be "pragmatic" because of MPs' strong views, the shadow transport secretary says.
  
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• Labour to give MPs free rein in Heathrow expansion vote

  20-06-2018 10:56 via ft.com
  Opposition party formally opposed to third runway but many will side with government
  
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• Thickening Brexit fog obscures future for UK energy

  20-06-2018 09:35
  
  There are various ways that business and logistics can rub up horribly with politics.
  
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• Single market in goods will come at a price for Brexit Britain

  20-06-2018 06:00 via ft.com
  Further compromises lie ahead if the UK opts to protect trade with the EU
  
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• Pensions Regulator defends role in Carillion funding crisis

  20-06-2018 05:00 via ft.com
  Ministers and Treasury pushed watchdog to be ‘business-friendly’ and back growth
  
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• Pensions Regulator admits faults over Carillion crisis

  20-06-2018 05:00 via ft.com
  Treasury pushed watchdog to be business-friendly and back growth
  
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• Low gilt yields show there is room for higher UK public spending

  20-06-2018 05:00 via ft.com
  Inverted curve illustrates pension and insurer demand for long-term paper
  
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• GCHQ director urges co-operation after Brexit

  20-06-2018 04:57 via bbc.co.uk
  Jeremy Fleming says the agency has helped foil at least four European terror plots in the past year.
  
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• Thailand’s military junta chief to visit London and Paris

  20-06-2018 03:42 via ft.com
  Human rights activists condemn trip as triumph of business over democratic principles
  
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• Head of Thailand’s military junta to visit London and Paris

  20-06-2018 03:42 via ft.com
  Human rights activists condemn trip as triumph of business over democratic principles
  
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• Funding gap leaves nurseries struggling to pay minimum wage

  20-06-2018 01:01 via ft.com
  Closures increase 47% in wake of government’s ‘30 hour’ policy
  
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