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• May rejects Corbyn's offer as businesses warn of Brexit cliff edge

  10-02-2019 23:30
  PM’s reply to Labour leader’s letter stresses her objections to UK being in a customs unionTheresa May has effectively ruled out Labour’s ideas for a compromise Brexit plan, shutting off another potential route to a deal as business groups warned that with less than 50 days to go the departure process was entering the “emergency zone”.The prime minister’s formal response to Jeremy Corbyn’s proposal, in a letter to the Labour leader, stressed her objectio
  
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• May offers Brexit concessions to win Labour support

  10-02-2019 23:30 via ft.com
  Workers’ rights on table but call for customs union with EU rejected
  
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• Cabinet backs Chris Grayling after ferry fiasco, says minister

  10-02-2019 20:17
  Transport minister’s Brexit plans going ‘positively’, claims colleague amid sacking callsA ministerial colleague of Chris Grayling has insisted the cabinet still supports the beleaguered transport secretary, amid pressure on him to step down over the cancellation of a Brexit-related ferry contract awarded to a company with no ships.The backing from James Brokenshire, the communities secretary, came as the Irish government dismissed the idea that it had influenced the demise of
  
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• HSBC’s Mark Tucker to become chair of TheCityUK

  10-02-2019 20:07 via ft.com
  Appointment comes as financial services sector worries over no-deal Brexit risk
  
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• Ben Jennings on a way out of the Brexit maze for the PM – cartoon

  10-02-2019 19:49
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• Have MPs, finally, come up with a decent Brexit proposal? | Matthew d’Ancona

  10-02-2019 18:01
  With Peter Kyle and Phil Wilson’s scheme for a public vote on May’s deal, there may be a way out of the dreary drama of BrexitIt all has the feel of the world’s most boring thriller. Though there are only just under seven weeks left until Britain’s official date of departure from the European Union, public life seems drowsy with a lethal brew of fatalism, insouciance and burrowing cowardice.On the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show this morning, James Brokenshire, the communiti
  
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• Brexit, US-China trade talks, Nigerian elections

  10-02-2019 18:00 via ft.com
  Your FT guide to next week’s big events
  
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• Seven-year jail terms unveiled for pension fund mismanagement

  10-02-2019 17:23
  MPs and experts welcome new criminal offence to punish ‘wilful or reckless’ behaviourMPs and pension experts have welcomed government plans to introduce lengthy jail sentences for executives who recklessly mismanage pension funds, in an effort to avoid a repeat of recent scandals like BHS or Carillion.Amber Rudd, the work and pensions secretary, said the current fines were not enough and that a new criminal offence would be introduced to punish “wilful or reckless behaviour&rdq
  
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• UK’s electricity prices risk ‘gilets jaunes’ backlash

  10-02-2019 16:59 via ft.com
  It is unwise to bet on public willingness to pay whatever it takes to tackle climate change
  
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• Eurosceptics take aim at Tory MPs not toeing their line

  10-02-2019 16:51 via ft.com
  Nick Boles faces first moves in deselection campaign
  
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• Eurosceptic activists take aim at pro-EU Tory MPs

  10-02-2019 16:51 via ft.com
  Nick Boles faces first moves in a deselection campaign
  
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• Brexit goes to the brink

  10-02-2019 16:22 via ft.com
  History tells us we should not draw conclusions from the lack of agreement at this moment
  
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• Brexit: More votes promised as Labour says May running down the clock

  10-02-2019 16:04 via bbc.co.uk
  But Labour is demanding a decisive vote on Theresa May's deal this month and accuses her of running down the clock.
  
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• Revealed: Lynton Crosby's £5.5m offer to undermine 2022 Qatar World Cup

  10-02-2019 15:52
  Tory strategist’s pitch detailed how CTF Partners would spread negative stories and press Fifa to ‘restart bidding process’Sir Lynton Crosby offered to work on a campaign to cancel the 2022 Qatar World Cup and get it awarded to another country in return for £5.5m, according to a leaked plan that gives a rare insight into the activities of one of the world’s best-known political operatives.The detailed pitch document – “a proposal for a campaign to expose
  
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• MoD under fire over £1bn support vessels tender

  10-02-2019 15:03 via ft.com
  Ministers stick to international procurement plan despite calls to protect UK jobs
  
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• US companies warn investors of mounting Brexit risks

  10-02-2019 13:27 via ft.com
  Threat of disorderly exit from EU prompts growing alarm in American boardrooms
  
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• Rudd plans tougher jail terms for pension abuses

  10-02-2019 13:00 via ft.com
  Minister secretary says tougher new laws will target ‘reckless’ and ‘arrogant’ bosses
  
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• UK Labour party targets Brexit vote pledge from May

  10-02-2019 12:03 via ft.com
  Keir Starmer to table amendment this week amid fears the PM is engaging in brinkmanship
  
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• Have central banks lost their nerve?

  10-02-2019 11:06 via ft.com
  The key concerns for the week ahead
  
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• Why the sickly ugly sisters of our politics deserve to suffer the splits | Andrew Rawnsley

  10-02-2019 11:00
  Once broad churches, both the Tory and Labour parties have become increasingly sectarian. Breakaways will be the resultIf they did not exist, would we invent them? Given the chance to start from scratch, would Britain regard the Conservative and Labour parties, the two old and ugly sisters of our politics, as the best we can do? Are they fit for the purpose of representing and reconciling the diversity of opinions in a modern and complex country? And for offering it a choice of decent government
  
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• Can Corbyn hold an increasingly divided Labour together?

  10-02-2019 08:59
  With the party at war with its leader over Brexit, antisemitism and Venezuela, MPs are asking whether it can surviveWith less than two months to go until Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn and his shadow cabinet gathered in the House of Commons at 10am on 5 February for their weekly meeting. Apart from a brief mention by the party leader of his unfruitful talks a few days earlier with Theresa May in Downing Street, there was no discussion of Labour’s approach to Britain’s impending departure from
  
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• EU governments provide Brexit relief for asset managers

  10-02-2019 06:00 via ft.com
  Crucial concessions let UK companies continue serving European clients
  
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• Denise Voss, the American helping Luxembourg run its money

  10-02-2019 06:00 via ft.com
  Alfi chair says Brexit is mostly ‘lose-lose’ not least because UK has been an EU ally
  
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• Brexit-hit Spanish nurses deepen NHS staffing crisis

  10-02-2019 06:00 via ft.com
  Hundreds threaten to leave after domestic rules hit value of UK work experience
  
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