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  • Sunday, 7 July, 2024
    Management consulting
    UK consultant numbers shrink as companies cut back on external advice

    Headcount fell 3% last year with firms axing jobs and moving staff as post-pandemic boom fades

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  • Sunday, 7 July, 2024
    UK politics
    Starmer begins tour of UK nations to ‘reset’ relations

    Prime minister moves to repair Westminster’s strained relationship with devolved administrations

    Keir Starmer
  • Sunday, 7 July, 2024
    Conservative party UK
    Tory rivals battle to set narrative of party’s historic defeat

    Leadership contenders Robert Jenrick, Suella Braverman and Victoria Atkins lay out where Conservatives should head next

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  • Sunday, 7 July, 2024
    UK politics
    Starmer tells Netanyahu of ‘clear and urgent’ need for Gaza ceasefire

    New UK prime minister stresses importance of ensuring conditions for two-state solution

    Pro-Palestinian protesters hold placards depicting Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner
  • Sunday, 7 July, 2024
    Stephen Bush
    The new volatility in British politics

    Voters are more willing to shop around and swap parties than in the past

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  • Sunday, 7 July, 2024
    UK manufacturing
    Labour to seek ‘job guarantees’ in Tata Steel negotiations

    Business secretary reveals he has already spoken to Britain’s biggest steelmaker about Port Talbot plant

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  • Sunday, 7 July, 2024
    Inside Politics
    Behind Starmer’s new approach to prisons is a cautious message

    Labour’s emphasis on dire state of public realm is designed to manage voter expectations, while underlining that change is coming

    Keir Starmer at the first meeting of his cabinet in Downing Street yesterday
  • Sunday, 7 July, 2024
    UK financial regulation
    The City of London’s wish list for the new Labour government

    Financial services bosses call for ‘bold’ action as they hope for a period of political stability

  • Sunday, 7 July, 2024
    Pilita Clark
    The new normal of office life

    As working from home persists, companies are rethinking the role of office space

    Illustration of a person holding a pile of gifs and sayin ‘welcome’ to a line of people holding briefcases and wearing office attire
  • Sunday, 7 July, 2024
    UK employment
    The workplace under Labour: employers braced for biggest shake-up in a generation

    From ending zero-hour contracts to boosting benefits, Britain’s new government wants to shift power back to staff

    A tug-of-war with red and blue arrows pointing in opposite directions
  • Saturday, 6 July, 2024
    UK Government
    Starmer warns UK that ‘broken’ public services will take time to fix

    Prime minister says NHS improvements and prison reform will not be an ‘overnight job’

  • Saturday, 6 July, 2024
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    Huge majority is double-edged sword for Labour government, say allies

    As the party cries ‘happy tears’, it prepares to face the dangers of ruling with a big mandate

    Leader of the Labour Party, Sir Keir Starmer, gives a victory speech at the Tate Modern in London
  • Saturday, 6 July, 2024
    UK general election 2024
    Who will replace Sunak as Tory leader?

    Candidates from both wings of the party jostle for position after electoral defeat

    Photos of potential replacements for Rishi Sunak as Labour leader
  • Saturday, 6 July, 2024
    Miranda Green
    A wild and woolly time awaits on the opposition benches

    Tactical voting has ensured success for the Lib Dems and the Greens

  • Saturday, 6 July, 2024
    The best books of the week
    Can Britain be mended?

    As the new government faces an economy, society and political system in despair, there is no shortage of prescriptions to put things right

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  • Saturday, 6 July, 2024
    Financial Advice
    How to protect your wealth from future Labour tax raids

    Advisers plot ways to ‘Labour-proof’ clients’ finances after landslide victory

  • Saturday, 6 July, 2024
    Andy Haldane
    Abandon caution, embrace risk: a growth recipe for Labour

    Regulatory rulebooks should hit the shredder as the new government leans into reform

    Illustration showing a Union Jack and Keir Starmer riding a lion
  • Saturday, 6 July, 2024
    Uefa Men's European championship
    The case for an England victory in the Euros

    Dull passing game has dogged favourites until quarter-finals but easier route leaves them well placed for glory

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  • Saturday, 6 July, 2024
    FT Magazine
    Hierarchy of pleasures: Max Halley on London’s best sandwiches

    From his favourite fancy kebab to his supermarket go-to

    A milk bun, layers of salame rosa, salted butter. From Quality Wines, Farringdon
  • Saturday, 6 July, 2024
    Special ReportThe Business of Formula One
    ‘F1 festival’ secures Silverstone’s Grand Prix future — at a price

    Circuit bets on music to attract crowds but rising ticket costs are drawing fans’ ire

  • Friday, 5 July, 2024
    UK public finances
    Reeves faces daunting fiscal choices at helm of ‘pro-growth’ Treasury

    New UK chancellor will try to boost output and avoid imposing drastic cuts on frayed public services

    Rachel Reeves arrives at 10 Downing Street
  • Friday, 5 July, 2024
    Scottish National party
    Punishing SNP losses fuel speculation over the party’s purpose

    Nationalists lose grip on Scotland as Labour regains dominance

    John Swinney
  • Friday, 5 July, 2024
    Labour party UK
    Starmer’s top team: key figures with influence in cabinet and behind the scenes

    First Labour administration for 14 years will be staffed and shaped by range of politicians, policy experts and advisers

    A silhouette of Sir Keir Starmer surrounded by potential figures in his government in small circular photos
  • Friday, 5 July, 2024
    Robert Shrimsley
    The fight for the UK right has begun

    Conservatives need to understand why they lost this election

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  • Friday, 5 July, 2024
    Disrupted Times
    Starmer readies for government after historic Labour win

    Also in today’s newsletter, US labour market slows, Orbán meets Putin, Scholz’s new budget

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