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• UK government urges companies to share data about AI effects on workforce

  03-06-2026 19:19 via ft.com
  Move comes amid concerns that AI will exacerbate youth unemployment
  
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• UK Treasury set to take control of fighter jet spending after defence ministry mishaps

  03-06-2026 22:00 via ft.com
  Move comes as Keir Starmer prepares to announce £15bn increase in military expenditure
  
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• Elon Musk shifts social media focus from SpaceX to UK far-right politics

  03-06-2026 19:14 via ft.com
  Tech billionaire writes 110 posts, retweets and replies about British affairs in space of week
  
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• Starmer pushes ‘bucket list’ policies as fatalistic mood descends on Number 10

  03-06-2026 18:49 via ft.com
  UK prime minister could be ousted within weeks if Andy Burnham wins Makerfield by-election
  
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• Keir Starmer pushes ‘bucket list’ policies as fatalistic mood descends on Downing Street

  03-06-2026 18:49 via ft.com
  UK prime minister could be ousted within weeks if Andy Burnham wins Makerfield by-election
  
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• UK government adviser urges clarity on Palantir access to NHS patient data

  03-06-2026 18:44 via ft.com
  Move by Nicola Byrne comes after FT reported that health service had agreed new ‘admin’ role for some external staff
  
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• MP sues Musk’s xAI in UK test case over fake sexual images

  03-06-2026 18:15 via ft.com
  Legal claim by Jess Asato challenges whether AI model-makers are liable for what their systems produce
  
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• Nissan signs deal with China’s Chery for Sunderland car production

  03-06-2026 16:15 via ft.com
  Future of UK’s largest car plant was thrown into doubt by massive restructuring of Japanese group
  
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• Nigel Farage gambles on playing to the far right

  03-06-2026 14:30 via ft.com
  Pollsters warn that Reform UK leader’s response to Southampton murder risks alienating moderate voters
  
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• Electoral reform for the UK? Don’t bet on it

  03-06-2026 14:04 via ft.com
  Fractured party politics and enthusiasm from Labour’s hopefuls are not a sign of imminent proportional voting
  
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• Policing minister says ‘wrong calls’ made amid anger over Henry Nowak murder

  03-06-2026 12:37 via ft.com
  Sarah Jones responds to far-right claims of racial bias against white people
  
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• What Henry Nowak’s murder does — and does not — tell us about policing

  03-06-2026 10:35 via ft.com
  Kemi Badenoch says his killing needs to be seen as a ‘Stephen Lawrence moment’ but the failures in both cases differ
  
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• Palantir should not have ‘significant role’ in UK public data systems, MPs say

  03-06-2026 01:02 via ft.com
  Technology committee calls on government to trigger break clause in flashpoint NHS contract
  
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• Minister condemns riots after UK rightwing leaders call for ‘rage’ over student killing

  03-06-2026 00:12 via ft.com
  Home Secretary says violent scenes in Southampton ‘completely unacceptable’ after Nigel Farage urges probe into police handling of case
  
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• Kyle included ‘more positive language’ in AI speech after Mandelson advice

  02-06-2026 21:48 via ft.com
  Documents raise questions since the advisory firm co-founded by Labour veteran represented big AI companies 
  
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• Labour backbench MPs say McFadden’s messages have not derailed welfare reform

  02-06-2026 19:17 via ft.com
  Tories have seized on messages from work and pensions secretary to claim taxes are being raised to pay benefits
  
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• Starmer uses disappearing messages, admits Downing Street

  02-06-2026 18:54 via ft.com
  Use of function on mobile devices prompts fresh scrutiny of transparency over appointment of former US ambassador
  
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• Ex-SNP chief used false invoices to cover up his £400,000 embezzlement

  02-06-2026 16:49 via ft.com
  Peter Murrell utilised party account and charge card to buy goods including vehicles and watches for personal use, court told
  
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• Ed Miliband calls for UK to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 87% by 2040

  02-06-2026 16:10 via ft.com
  Energy secretary’s proposed legally binding target sets up battle with opposition parties over ‘net zero’ policies
  
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• UK pushes ahead with zero-hours crackdown despite business warnings

  02-06-2026 14:49 via ft.com
  New right intended to fulfil Labour’s pre-election pledge to ban ‘exploitative’ contracts
  
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• Martin Wolf honoured by European institutions for defending ‘open and united’ Europe

  02-06-2026 13:22 via ft.com
  Spain’s Cercle d’Economia and Germany-based Kiel Institute for the World Economy hand prizes to FT chief economics commentator
  
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• Submit your questions: Ten years on, what’s next for Brexit?

  02-06-2026 12:11 via ft.com
  Take part in a live Ask an Expert Q&A with the FT’s Europe editor Ben Hall and Peter Foster, the FT’s World trade editor, on Thursday June 4, at 1pm BST
  
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• Mandelson files fire up row over taxes ‘to pay benefits’

  02-06-2026 10:30 via ft.com
  Pat McFadden’s claim about backbenchers’ view of taxes may stymie the government’s youth unemployment review
  
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• Blair has shone a spotlight on Starmer’s growth delusion

  02-06-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Labour’s commitment to fixing the sluggish economy comes with a dizzying number of caveats
  
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• Confidence in the value of a degree hits record low in England

  02-06-2026 01:01 via ft.com
  BSA survey results come as the student loan system faces growing scrutiny
  
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• Home Office bans pro-Palestinian influencers from entering the UK

  01-06-2026 20:20 via ft.com
  US commentators Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker were due to attend London’s SXSW ideas festival
  
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• Britain re-entering the EU ‘an inevitability’, says Treasury minister

  01-06-2026 20:06 via ft.com
  Lord Spencer Livermore says Brexit has caused the nation the loss of between 6% and 8% of GDP
  
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• Eight things we learnt from the latest Mandelson files

  01-06-2026 19:40 via ft.com
  Documents contain nuggets about the peer’s appointment as US envoy and the workings of Sir Keir Starmer’s government
  
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• Mandelson files expose criticism of Starmer’s ‘advance/buckle’ premiership

  01-06-2026 19:30 via ft.com
  Documents reveal remarkable extent of former envoy’s influence across government policy
  
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• Sinn Féin proposes reform to remove threat of Northern Ireland Assembly ‘collapse’

  01-06-2026 19:12 via ft.com
  Nationalist party says veto over power-sharing at Stormont should be scrapped
  
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