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]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/b14b94d4-f146-4591-bbd3-66ea7a3f2496</link><guid isPermaLink="false">b14b94d4-f146-4591-bbd3-66ea7a3f2496</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 15:05:12 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Watchdog rejects calls to probe Starmer’s failure to declare free clothing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Prime minister initially failed to disclose more than £5,000 in items and tailoring for his wife]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/73e2b202-634c-41d6-a7f1-43ae39c0624a</link><guid isPermaLink="false">73e2b202-634c-41d6-a7f1-43ae39c0624a</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 13:55:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lib Dems enjoy a festival of calm, but fissures are never far away ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Party will eventually seek to rejoin the EU, but this may spark internal clashes on preferred timing]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/a020a716-a1b4-44eb-98b3-97a5d1f5ded9</link><guid 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to boost London equity market]]></title><description><![CDATA[Incentives for investors needed to ‘revive’ UK stock exchanges  ]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/341a4b27-a944-43ed-a7e4-fbdde50d5e77</link><guid isPermaLink="false">341a4b27-a944-43ed-a7e4-fbdde50d5e77</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 04:00:11 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK steelmakers face dumping risk over EU carbon tax timing, industry warns ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ministers urged to bring forward start date of British scheme to 2026 to align with Europe]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/b555a7d9-7763-4488-82e6-b09cd35ba0eb</link><guid isPermaLink="false">b555a7d9-7763-4488-82e6-b09cd35ba0eb</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 04:00:11 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Starmer to meet Meloni for advice on tackling small-boat migration]]></title><description><![CDATA[British premier has promised tougher border measures and to ‘smash the gangs’ that smuggle people ]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/1039dc9f-8566-400a-a386-eeb37244ae11</link><guid isPermaLink="false">1039dc9f-8566-400a-a386-eeb37244ae11</guid><pubDate>Sun, 15 Sep 2024 21:43:12 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK spending cuts would damage ‘foundations of the economy’, Reeves told ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Letter from leading economists calls for overhaul of Britain’s fiscal rules to boost investment  ]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/b0df3109-07e9-4fec-86ba-9285c2b4a1c2</link><guid isPermaLink="false">b0df3109-07e9-4fec-86ba-9285c2b4a1c2</guid><pubDate>Sun, 15 Sep 2024 20:00:10 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Higher fuel duty is toxic but necessary]]></title><description><![CDATA[Longer term, road pricing is the answer but Reeves should use this Budget to strengthen penalties on pollution]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/320cc158-88f8-428f-927c-6fb3549c1d6c</link><guid 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