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  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    UK Government
    Starmer aide to receive dividends from corporate advisory firm Hakluyt

    Varun Chandra still holds majority of his previous stake in the group despite joining Downing Street in July

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  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    Charity
    UK charity that raised funds for Israeli soldier given warning

    Regulator acts over complaints about fundraising activity as trustees fail to explain how IDF individual spent the donation

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  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    Gilts
    UK government seeks to soothe bond market nerves after borrowing costs soar

    Treasury vows to stick to its fiscal rules and says gilt markets functioning ‘in an orderly way’

    Line graph showing value of the pound against the dollar since 2023
  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    UK politics
    Andy Burnham backs ‘limited’ national inquiry into UK grooming scandal

    Manchester mayor says fresh probe could bring new evidence to light

    Andy Burnham
  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    The State of Britain
    The hole in Keir Starmer’s plan for the NHS Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: demand for special educational needs provision doubles

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  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    UK politics
    UK presses ahead with gene editing plans despite EU warnings

    Environment secretary tells FT that moves to adopt technology are ‘the right thing to do’

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  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    English devolution
    English counties weigh election delay to pursue devolution plan

    13 councils are considering postponing local polls in May, officials say

    Voters go to the polls in Yarm during local elections in England and Wales
  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    Pound Sterling
    The sterling sell-off will continue until morale improves

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  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    UK politics
    Truss lawyers tell Starmer to stop saying she ‘crashed the economy’

    Legal letter warns prime minister to ‘cease and desist’ from claims about her brief tenure

    Keir Starmer and Liz Truss leaving Palace of Westminster, London in September 2022
  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    National Health Service
    Flu cases in England’s hospitals soar after season starts early

    NHS data shows mounting pressure from ‘quad-demic’ of viruses

    Paramedics and ambulance staff move a patient to The Royal London Hospital in London
  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    Diageo PLC
    Smith dumps Diageo stake over impact of weight-loss drugs on alcohol demand

    Veteran stockpicker sells shares in spirits brand because drinks sector is being ‘impacted negatively’

    Terry Smith
  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    Robert Shrimsley
    Musk’s grooming onslaught shows politics needs a new playbook

    Online distortions obscure the true nature of public outrage — democracies must adapt to the age of X

    Illustration of seven silhouettes stood behind a young girl
  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    Edith Hall
    The delights of the ancient world should be available for all

    The flame of classics still burns in state schools even as the Latin scheme is axed

    lllustration of what looks like the side of a grecian vase in black and shades of orange with modern teenagers in classical poses standing in from of columns
  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    Post Office scandal
    UK Home Office hands Fujitsu contracts worth £25mn

    IT provider at centre of Post Office scandal had said it would restrict bidding for public work

    A show display booth with a Fujitsu logo on it
  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    Inside Politics
    The key question underlying Badenoch’s call for grooming gangs probe

    Tory leader says there was a failure to ‘join dots’, taking a different view to police on how to address issue

    Kemi Badenoch in the House of Commons
  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    Elon Musk
    Musk examines how to oust Starmer as UK prime minister before next election

    Technology billionaire interested in building support for another political party, notably Reform UK

  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    Sovereign bonds
    Bond market ‘police’ are back as investors patrol spending plans

    Debt market flare-ups show growing pushback against governments’ loose fiscal policies

    View of busy street in Paris
  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    Investor activism
    Fund managers to warn FCA over US activist’s plans to shake up UK trusts

    Saba Capital has taken stakes in seven trusts and called on investors to vote for changes to their boards

    Boaz Weinstein, founder and chief investment officer of Saba Capital Management
  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    Utilities
    Listed UK water utility dividends exceed private peers’ payouts for first time since Thatcher

    First-time publicly traded companies pay out more than privately held rivals since privatisation

    An aerial view of treated waste water flowing into the River Irwell from the Bolton wastewater treatment works operated by United Utilities
  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    The Big Read
    How car loans became Britain’s latest consumer finance scandal

    Hidden commissions to car dealers inflated costs for buyers. The legal fallout could cost banks billions and restrict access to credit

    Montage of images. A cutout of a Kia car against a background of overlapping bank notes and graph lines
  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    UK politics
    Civil servant long-term sickness hits post-pandemic high in UK

    Ministry of Justice was department with highest average length of absence

    Whitehall
  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    UK airports
    London’s airports test Labour with plans for rapid growth

    Luton and Gatwick ruling to come this year, while Stansted and City expansion already approved

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  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    UK employment
    UK recruiters report fresh slowdown in hiring as planned tax rises bite

    Survey results will heighten investor concerns over stagflation threat in economy

    Workers walk through the Canary Wharf financial district
  • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
    UK crime
    MPs reject calls by Tories for national inquiry into UK grooming gangs

    Government uses its Commons majority to dismiss Conservatives’ demand backed by Elon Musk

    Sir Keir Starmer speaks during Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, with safeguarding minister Jess Phillips far right
  • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
    UK crime
    Whitehall estimates child sexual abuse compensation could hit £10bn

    Keir Starmer has criticised previous Conservative government for failing to implement 2022 Jay review recommendations

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