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• No leaders, but Brexit debate was still compelling

  09-12-2018 22:53 via ft.com
  Cross-party panel swapped barbs and played to the crowd
  
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• Crossrail set for further £1bn bailout as problems mount

  09-12-2018 22:07 via ft.com
  London construction project faces third rescue this year amid delays and cost overruns
  
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• Crossrail set for further £1bn bailout

  09-12-2018 22:07 via ft.com
  Third rescue this year for construction project amid delays and cost overruns
  
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• All-party panel set out stances in Channel 4's Brexit debate - as it happened

  09-12-2018 21:29
  Caroline Lucas, James Cleverly, Barry Gardiner and Jacob Rees-Mogg to argue their case over what should happen8.29pm GMT We’ll now close tonight’s live blog. All eyes to Tuesday’s crucial vote. Related: Parliament to vote on May's Brexit deal: what happens next?8.25pm GMT James Cleverly is back on social media already, reiterating the divisions among opponents to the deal – a strategy that Downing Street have been seen to increasingly pursue.On tonight’s @Channel4Ne
  
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• Crossrail set for further £1bn rescue as problems mount

  09-12-2018 19:30 via ft.com
  Europe’s largest construction project likely to face further delays
  
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• Crossrail set for further £1bn rescue

  09-12-2018 19:30 via ft.com
  Third bailout this year for construction project amid delays and cost overruns
  
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• Our manifesto to save Europe from itself | Thomas Piketty

  09-12-2018 19:00
  We need to reduce inequality within countries, not between them, and invest in the future of all EuropeansSince the election of anti-European governments across the EU, and with Brexit looming, it is no longer possible to continue as before. We cannot simply wait for the next departures, or further dismantling without making fundamental changes to present-day Europe.Our continent is caught between political movements whose programme is confined to hunting down foreigners and refugees, on one han
  
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• Ben Jennings on a PM in search of missing parliamentary votes – cartoon

  09-12-2018 18:52
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• Government insists no delay to vote on Brexit deal

  09-12-2018 18:46 via ft.com
  Theresa May faces almost certain defeat in the Commons on Tuesday
  
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• Climbdowns and compromises on way to botched Brexit

  09-12-2018 18:00 via ft.com
  Two big setbacks in June 2017 forced prime minister to face grim reality
  
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• A disruptive Brexit will make recession hard to avoid, say economists

  09-12-2018 18:00 via ft.com
  Severity of downturn will depend on what UK and EU will do to help ease the fallout
  
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• Parliament to vote on May's Brexit deal: what happens next?

  09-12-2018 17:48
  The likely scenarios around Tuesday’s vote and what each could mean for the PM
  Theresa May is facing the reckoning of her premiership on Tuesday, when she is expected to put her negotiated Brexit deal in front of her mutinous MPs. Here’s what could happen in that fraught 24 hours. Continue reading...
  
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• They’re chasing May’s leadership – but statesmanship is what we need now | Matthew d’Ancona

  09-12-2018 16:55
  Our politicians are failing to rise to the challenge of finding a calm solution to the Brexit crisis in these populist timesIncredible though it seems, the most important political question facing the nation this week is not the fate of the prime minister. Indeed, the prospect of her resignation, or a vote of confidence in her leadership, is a distraction – albeit a compelling one – from the main event. True enough, the race to succeed Theresa May as Conservative leader is now most d
  
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• Norway plus would unite Britain: leavers and remainers both hate it | Jonathan Lis

  09-12-2018 16:34
  Even if we manage to achieve the deal, we would be out of the EU yet accepting EU law without a say. It won’t please anyoneSpare a thought this Christmas for the Norwegian tourist board. In the halcyon days before the EU referendum, British minds would have associated the country most with the northern lights, midnight sun and saltwater fjords. Now all anyone can think about is its membership of the single market. If we assume the government does go ahead with the vote on its Brexit deal t
  
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• The EU could, and should, help May’s deal pass

  09-12-2018 16:29 via ft.com
  The backstop is awful and a purgatory in which the union does not want to end up
  
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• Theresa May cuts a lonely figure as crucial Brexit vote looms

  09-12-2018 16:19
  Prime minister has few options before Tuesday but to remind MPs of the risks of no dealThere is not much uniting the Conservatives at present, but on one issue everybody is agreed. Theresa May has to try something to avoid risking a humiliating defeat in Tuesday night’s Brexit vote. What is surprising senior insiders is that so far, the prime minister has hardly acted.Cabinet ministers summoned to see May last Thursday could not believe how little the prime minister had to say for herself,
  
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• 'I don't like Brussels telling us what to do': how Ashfield feels about Brexit now

  09-12-2018 15:24
  As crunch Brexit vote looms, the constituents of Ashfield are as divided as areas all over the country – and Westminster itself“I feel sorry for our prime minister because she’s been such a staunch woman. She’s stuck it out. She is a British bulldog.” Linda Williams is among a group of lively older women putting the world to rights over their knitting, in a cheerfully lit room at Trinity Methodist church, in Kirkby-in-Ashfield.Her sentiment is one heard repeatedly b
  
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• Brexit trade uncertainty threatens to set UK back

  09-12-2018 14:29 via ft.com
  Prime minister Theresa May is putting the British economy at risk
  
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• Brexit trade uncertainty risks setting UK back 46 years

  09-12-2018 14:29 via ft.com
  Theresa May is putting the British economy in peril
  
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• Brexit trade uncertainty risks set UK back 46 years

  09-12-2018 14:29 via ft.com
  Theresa May is putting the British economy in peril
  
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• Johnson, McVey and Raab each hint at Tory leadership ambitions

  09-12-2018 14:10
  Senior Tory Brexiters suggest they could be interested in role should Theresa May be toppledThree Brexit-supporting former cabinet ministers have signalled in television interviews that they would be interested in running for the Conservative leadership if Theresa May is forced to resign after Tuesday night’s critical Brexit vote, in a sign of the prime minster’s crumbling authority.Boris Johnson, Esther McVey and Dominic Raab all refused to rule out leadership bids and called on May
  
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• Brexit, Brussels and Northern Ireland: careful what you wish for

  09-12-2018 14:01 via ft.com
  Backstop plans could hand the EU extraordinary powers over the province
  
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• Government insists vote on Brexit deal will go ahead

  09-12-2018 13:51 via ft.com
  Theresa May faces almost certain defeat in Tuesday’s parliamentary vote
  
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• Never mind the Brexit sideshow – recession is the real worry | Larry Elliot

  09-12-2018 12:27
  Markets are more jittery about the prospect of a downturn than May’s doomed dealIt is crunch time for and Theresa May and the financial markets are in turmoil. The drama at Westminster has been mirrored by drama on stock markets, with share prices tumbling and money flooding into the customary safe haven assets – gold and government bonds. Squeaky bum time all round.None of this really has much to do with May’s doomed Brexit agreement, because the City has known since the minut
  
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• Cross-party committee unites to condemn May’s Brexit

  09-12-2018 10:37 via ft.com
  MPs accuse prime minister of avoiding ‘hard choices’ in fierce critique of plan
  
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• Theresa May has no choice but to charge into the valley of parliamentary death | Andrew Rawnsley

  09-12-2018 09:30
  The prime minister has little chance of winning Tuesday’s vote on her Brexit deal. But at least defeat will open up possible escape routes from this nightmareHalf a league, half a league,
  Half a league onward,
  All in the valley of Death
  Rode the six hundred.
  “Forward, the Light Brigade!
  Charge for the guns!” he said.
  Into the valley of Death
  Rode the six hundred.As Theresa May rides towards an all but certain defeat in parliament this week, some of her more historically minded
  
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• Social mobility tsar warns cuts to tuition fees may not help poorest students

  09-12-2018 09:00
  Martina Milburn says her commission will look at reviving maintenance grantsCutting university tuition fees risks failing to help the young people most in need of help to access higher education, Theresa May’s new social mobility tsar has warned.Martina Milburn, the new chair of the government’s Social Mobility Commission, said she was unconvinced that cutting fees was the best way to help pupils from poorer backgrounds prosper. Continue reading...
  
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• As Churchill saw, Britain’s glory is not found in isolation | David Lammy

  09-12-2018 07:00
  After a barnstorming speech in the Brexit debate, the MP makes a patriotic case for EuropeThe European Union was once just an audacious dream. A fragile hope built out of the ashes of two world wars. European integration was not just a project led by the French and the Germans; from its birth, the UK had been an active parent. It was built on the values we sacrificed so much to protect: democracy, equality, human rights and freedom.Many of the Britain’s leaders in the 20th century –
  
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• Heard the one about the Tory who walked into a Scottish food bank? | Kevin McKenna

  09-12-2018 06:59
  How a leaked ‘guide’ on entering such places could show how far compassion can truly stretchA leaked letter from Conservative campaign headquarters has found its way into the hands of the Observer’s Scottish bureau. Its title is: “Advisory on visiting Scottish food banks.”“Dear Colleagues, Continue reading...
  
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• Brexit deal vote, ECB meeting, Inditex results

  09-12-2018 05:59 via ft.com
  Vanessa Kortekaas on the key stories the FT will be watching this week
  
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• Brexit: Theresa May warns of 'uncharted waters' ahead of key vote

  09-12-2018 04:43 via bbc.co.uk
  The PM puts pressure on MPs before Tuesday's vote - as No 10 rejects suggestions it will be postponed.
  
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• Theresa May's Brexit deal is 'huge step into unknown', MPs say

  09-12-2018 04:41 via bbc.co.uk
  A committee of MPs has criticised the PM's plan for failing to offer clarity about the future.
  
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