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• Hunt set to pick British ambassadors from boardrooms

  30-10-2018 23:31 via ft.com
  Business leaders could become Foreign Office’s top overseas diplomats
  
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• Hammond accused of gambling with public finances

  30-10-2018 21:07 via ft.com
  Think tanks chide chancellor for downgrading efforts to eradicate budget deficit
  
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• Staff from EU face ‘right to work’ tests by UK bosses

  30-10-2018 19:51 via ft.com
  Immigration minister struggles to answer MPs’ questions over no-deal arrangements
  
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• Hammond’s tax changes scorned as ‘sticking plasters’

  30-10-2018 18:18 via ft.com
  Institute for Fiscal Studies derides Budget for failing to tackle fundamental distortions
  
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• S&P warns no-deal Brexit would spark recession

  30-10-2018 17:27 via ft.com
  Rating agency says the risk of UK crashing out of EU is rising
  
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• Labour MPs attack McDonnell over Budget tax cut support

  30-10-2018 17:22 via ft.com
  Yvette Cooper and Andy Burnham among those to criticise shadow chancellor’s stance
  
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• Theresa May rules out a snap post-Budget election

  30-10-2018 16:21 via ft.com
  Chancellor’s NHS spending boost had raised talk of early poll for PM to seek fresh mandate
  
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• Airlines hit out at increases in UK passenger taxes

  30-10-2018 15:15 via ft.com
  BA owner IAG says the move ‘undermined Britain’s global competitiveness’
  
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• What is the Norway model?

  30-10-2018 13:49 via bbc.co.uk
  The UK prime minister is in Norway and Brexit is bound to come up.
  
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• The Brexit consequences of a post-Merkel era

  30-10-2018 13:35 via ft.com
  German chancellor’s scope for showing personal flexibility towardsUK has been reduced
  
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• Chancellor defends delaying balancing books

  30-10-2018 11:48 via ft.com
  Extra funding for NHS is ‘number one priority’
  
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• A very political Budget

  30-10-2018 11:45 via ft.com
  Surprise public finance boost sends Philip Hammond on a crowd-pleasing spree
  
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• Hammond ends austerity - but only for the middle class

  30-10-2018 10:32
  
  The Budget suggests the Tories will end austerity for target voters, but leave it untouched for those who've been hit hardest
  
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• Hammond defends decision to delay balancing books

  30-10-2018 09:39 via ft.com
  Chancellor says extra funding for National Health Service is ‘number one priority’
  
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• Resolution Foundation doubts Hammond’s austerity claim

  30-10-2018 09:02 via ft.com
  Think-tank says many departments likely to suffer further budget cuts
  
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• Labour would not alter Tory changes to income tax — McDonnell

  30-10-2018 08:59 via ft.com
  Opposition would maintain higher income tax thresholds announced in the Budget
  
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• How the Irish border became Brexit’s defining issue

  30-10-2018 06:00 via ft.com
  Brussels’ support for a backstop to avoid a hard border is the result of two years of painstaking diplomacy by Dublin
  
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• How the Irish border backstop became Brexit’s defining issue

  30-10-2018 06:00 via ft.com
  Brussels’ support for Dublin’s plans to avoid a hard border is the result of two years of painstaking diplomacy
  
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• EU pledges access to UK clearing in no-deal Brexit

  30-10-2018 06:00 via ft.com
  Short-term permission reflects Brussels’ fears over financial stability
  
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• London families cowed by embedded immigration officials

  30-10-2018 05:00 via ft.com
  Campaigners say approach ‘having chilling effect’ on people seeking council support
  
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• Families cowed by embedded immigration officials

  30-10-2018 05:00 via ft.com
  People seeking council services face ‘hostile environment’ policies, say campaigners
  
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• Facebook employees overwhelmingly back Democrats

  30-10-2018 05:00 via ft.com
  Former GOP Senator Jon Kyl is probing whether social network has a liberal bias
  
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