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  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Personal Finance
    Reader callout: would younger UK employees benefit by working on continent?
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  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Reform UK
    Reform UK starts accepting donations in crypto

    Rightwing party says cryptocurrencies will be allowed as a form of tax payment if it wins power

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  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Northern Ireland
    Gerry Adams wins defamation case against BBC

    Veteran republican leader awarded €100,000 in damages at Dublin’s High Court

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    Opportunity and upward mobility are more important than GDP growth

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  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    UK manufacturing
    Toyota shifts more car production from Japan to UK amid tariff turmoil

    Plant in Derbyshire will make GR Corolla hatchbacks from next year

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  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
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    Who’s afraid of Nigel Farage?

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  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
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    Russell Brand pleads not guilty to rape and sexual assault

    Charges relate to incidents that allegedly took place at locations including MTV and a Labour conference

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    The best exhibitions to see in London this weekend

    The FT’s critics recommend the most compelling 2025 shows, including Do Ho Suh at Tate Modern

  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Inside Politics
    Starmer’s curious swing at Farage

    With no overarching theory of change, the government is hell-bent on avoiding unpopular decisions to improve the state

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  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    UK universities
    University places for science and engineering fail to keep pace with UK demand

    Sector body warns that funding woes risk undermining government’s growth strategy

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  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Pensions
    UK fuel payment U-turn risks turning £1.5bn cut into net cost, analysts warn

    A surge in claims for pension credit could exceed the reduced welfare savings

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  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    UK foreign policy
    Budget cuts threaten UK soft power, warns government adviser

    Neil Mendoza says Britain must protect its leading position in higher education, science and the arts

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  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    UK economy
    BoE policymaker plays down inflation risk in call for rate cuts

    Alan Taylor says price rises are being driven by one-off factors as he stressed hit from Trump trade war

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  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    The Big Read
    The pitch for growth: will football help regenerate England’s cities?

    Clubs in several big cities want to use new stadiums to redevelop entire areas. But they seek government funding to make the projects work

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  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Rich People’s ProblemsJames Max
    How rich is rich, anyway?

    Earning a six-figure salary is enough for the government to strip you of benefits and allowances — but it hardly makes you wealthy

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  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    InterviewUK economy
    Alan Taylor: we have flipped the switch from the ‘great moderation’

    The professor and MPC member on making monetary policy in an age of uncertainty

    Leonie Woods illustration of the portraits of Martin Wolf and Sam Fleming for Economists Exchange
  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    News in-depthUK immigration
    ‘I’ve been tricked’: highly paid foreign workers reconsider ties to UK after rule change

    White-collar professionals fear being ‘kept in limbo’ after ministers extend waiting time for indefinite leave to remain

    Alexander Chreky
  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Biofuels
    Commodities giant ADM exploits green fuel loophole, UK producers say

    US company benefits from double subsidy on biofuels as surge in imports threatens to wipe UK ethanol industry

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  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    UK trade
    BoE governor urges UK government to seek closer trade ties with EU

    Andrew Bailey makes case for minimising negative effects of Brexit

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  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
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    UK’s top lawyer attacks Badenoch over call to leave European human rights treaty

    Attorney-general Richard Hermer says ‘pseudo-realist’ politicians risk providing ‘succour to Putin’

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  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    Pensions industry
    UK to make it easier for companies to access pension surpluses

    Ministers want to release billions of pounds for investment

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  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    The State of Britain
    Reform UK inherits a financial firestorm in English councils Premium content

    Party faces familiar problem of finding large-scale savings while avoiding unpopular choices

    Reform UK leader Nigel Farage during the party’s campaign launch rally in Birmingham in March
  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    Health
    Almost 2.5mn people in England estimated to have ADHD

    Only third of those with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are thought to have been diagnosed, data shows

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  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    Labour party UK
    British politics is choice between Labour and Reform, says Starmer

    Nigel Farage’s rightwing populist party is leading in national opinion polls but has just five MPs

    Keir Starmer addressing a group of people, watched by workmen standing in a gallery
  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    Robert Shrimsley
    Nigel Farage and the perils of peaking too soon

    With just five MPs, Reform UK is terrorising Westminster but holding a poll lead for four years isn’t easy

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