The SNP now presides over an exhausted Scottish government, haunted by many policy failures and about to be on its third leader in two years. Sound familiar?
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Michael Gove has compared the government’s levelling-up policy to a half-built cathedral, urging critics of the flagship agenda to wait another six years before casting judgment on its progress

Interview by me and Anna Gross with Peter Foster

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🚨🚨kicking off new three-part @ft series on Levelling up.

Inside the UK’s failing plans to ‘level up’ left-behind towns — real clarity on the maddening, scattergun administration of a big idea Jennifer Williams Anna Gross Amy Borrett

on.ft.com/3Qj6hH4

Reform UK’s company-like structure has Nigel Farage right at the top as a director and majority shareholder, but he doesn’t consider himself a politician.

Writing about UK equities once more. on.ft.com/3UdWiE1

An in-depth attempt to explain nearly five years of levelling up funds: what they are, why they are, and why people have been so unhappy with them

With ⁦Amy Borrett⁩ and ⁦Anna Gross⁩

(The first in a 4-part series about levelling up)
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Five ways in which the FTSE 100 is not at a record high on.ft.com/3UbWdk7

feels like the ECHR is going to become quite the political battleground in the next Parliament, especially if the next Tory leader accepts exit

I’ve interviewed ShabanaMahmood for the @ft ahead of her first major speech as shadow justice secretary

in which she defends UK’s membership of the European Court of Human Rights, describing it as a privilege that has “protected the rights of thousands of British citizens” over…

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note that the independent pro-Palestinian candidate is currently at 5% in the West Midlands race and it *could* be enough to save Andy Street

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.

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Sensational review of Truss's book by FT Alphaville, which includes this evocative analogy

57 Tories voted against Rishi Sunak's flagship smoking ban, including at least three ministers: Kemi Badenoch, Lee Rowley and Andrew Griffith

7 per cent

Gordon Brown: ‘I really didn’t think we could go as far backwards as we’ve gone’

Really lovely interview by ⁦Henry Mance⁩ on.ft.com/3UhcllG

On the front: Rwanda’s state-owned airline turned down role in Sunak’s asylum plan due to fears for its brand

William Wragg wrote an op-ed in Feb claiming Lindsay Hoyle's position as speaker of the house was unsustainable.

In it, he very eloquently set out the rationale for why his own position is no longer tenable today.

Earlier this year, the former head of the judiciary in England and Wales met with ministers to discuss an alternative approach to mass exoneration in the Horizon scandal.

Lord Ian Burnett speaks publicly for the first time on his proposals. on.ft.com/3VMp15j