Will we get an EU-U.K. mobility deal? Maybe. With ⁦Peter Foster⁩ ⁦Lucy Fisher⁩ via Financial Times
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US hedge fund Elliott Management has been buying the bonds of troubled British utility Thames Water, in a bet that markets have grown too pessimistic over the size of losses that investors may have to take on the debt

details w/ Arash Massoudi here 👇
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🚨 EXC: Govt is preparing to announce national security adviser Tim Barrow is next UK ambo to US, sparking Labour anger 🇬🇧🇺🇸

Labour officials warn they cd override appointment, set to begin Dec/Jan, & install their own candidate if Starmer enters No 10

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NEW: Michael Gove insisted leasehold ground rents would fall to 'peppercorn' rates over time as he accused Conservative opponents of his reforms of acting like “rentier” capitalists who made 'preposterous' claims about him being a Marxist.

W/ Jim Pickard 🐋 ft.com/content/768a16…

Jeremy Hunt targets further 2p cut in national insurance ft.com/content/4972e7…

Fears grow for British Steel’s rescue deal - it’s been 18 months since talks began ft.com/content/5cade9… via Jim Pickard 🐋 and me

Almost 1,000 reader comments on this Lunch with the FT with Liz Truss, featuring ecclesiastical metaphors, British cheese and little regret
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UK will not ‘turn on’ post-Brexit checks of EU goods for fear of border delays on.ft.com/3vUsnJ5

'It was more having to reverse the policies — policies that I knew were right, basically — at gunpoint. That was depressing and upsetting.'

Former PM Liz Truss has Lunch with the FT

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As elections loom in India, Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata party appears to be stronger than ever.

Why does the BJP’s electoral machine keep winning power?

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Peter Mandelson’s advisory firm valued at £30mn in deal with ex-Obama aide
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read Liz Truss’s new book, which has some interesting thoughts about bats in it ft.com/content/755111…

How a G7 country became obsessed by holes in its roads. Britain’s “pothole crisis” and the menace it poses to ⁦Rishi Sunak⁩ - already getting a lot of comment from Financial Times readers on.ft.com/4cVDKB3

I interviewed Gordon Brown - possibly the model for an ex-prime minister, certainly the model for the next chancellor ft.com/content/7c0fb9…

zero dimensions, one ladder, four hunters, more lawyers, and millions of wild acres — the story of a geometric battle in the american west: ft.com/content/63b1c7…

What a story. Chinese victims of a $3bn fraud in which the scammer converted the money to bitcoin and ran off to the UK, are calling on the UK to hand over the seized bitcoin

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Victims of a £5bn fraud in China: “We do not want, and will never accept, a situation where bitcoins are confiscated by the UK and not returned to us.”
Chinese fraud victims seek return of £3bn in bitcoin seized in UK ft.com/content/605a7c… via @ft

Exclusive: Links between the UK prime minister and private equity group Blackstone have fuelled speculation about his post-election future on.ft.com/4aQCpJX

'Where's my office?!' How Rishi Sunak built a close relationship with Blackstone’s bosses
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