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A leftwing Labour MP has offered to give up his seat to clear the way for Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham to return to ...

Scotland has outlined plans to sell £1.5bn of bonds in the coming years, after being awarded the same credit rating as the UK ...

EU wants handling fee on small packages ordered from likes of Shein and Temu to kick in two years earlier than planned ...

In the US, credit card rewards are both sport and status symbol. Diehards toggle between multiple cards and meticulously ...

Scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads) . . . In fact he seems ...

Since September 10, when Oracle announced a $300bn deal with the chatbot maker, its stock has shed $315bn* in market value: ...

Buyers of expensive manual and electric bicycles through salary sacrifice schemes will have their tax benefits sharply ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Big Tech groups are losing a political battle in Brussels to gain access to the EU’s financial data market, ...

How committed is Nato to the defence of the Baltic states? That was the question that Vladimir Putin was indirectly posing, when Russian fighter planes violated Estonian airspace last week. Nato’s ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The US’s largest public utility is taking a gamble on a multibillion-dollar moonshot nuclear technology that ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. China and Russia have signed an agreement to build the Power of Siberia 2 pipeline, a huge gas project that ...