Chefs overtake software developers for UK skilled worker visas on.ft.com/4bUlWF0

Is it me or has Lucy not got enough credit for this incredible scoop last week…? Saying specifically that they were prepping using the inflation numbers to launch July election date. Hats off.

Excellent read on the state of the Sunak campaign and what the PM is thinking by George Parker, Lucy Fisher and Sam Fleming (FT): ft.com/content/3017ba…

Hunt jokes ‘Vote Labour’ as Lib Dems chase top Tories on.ft.com/4bN0fXm

Hunt jokes ‘Vote Labour’ as Lib Dems chase top Tories on.ft.com/3QZeCjC

I’ve written a long @ft read about Keir Starmer’s ruthless reinvention of the Labour Party since 2020 - taking it from virtual ruin to the brink of power

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Delightful aside in this read on how Rishi Sunak shocked Westminster with a snap election by George Parker, Lucy Fisher and Rafe Uddin: ft.com/content/bfb032…

New - Election speculation latest. Tory insiders say Hunt sees no scope for tax cuts later in the year, won't be an Autumn Statement...interest rate cut hopes receding. So why not get on with it? Cameron flying back early from Albania for 4.15pm cabinet
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Interview: Vaccine billionaire Adar Poonawalla hits out at end of UK ‘non-dom’ tax breaks ft.com/content/5ed43a… Benjamin Parkin Chris Kay Emma Agyemang via @ft

Breaking news: UK inflation fell less than expected in April to 2.3%, close to the Bank of England's target on.ft.com/3WORmZe

The Tees Valley review raised value for £ concerns about some further proposed deals with the Teesworks developers.

South Tees Development Corporation then appears to have told them it was no longer pursuing the deals.

It turns out that it is

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'Goverment risk register' 🤝 'Sue's shit list'

Great story from Jim Pickard 🐋 Lucy Fisher Anna Gross
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A Labour government would face an array of inherited crises - including bankrupt councils, failing universities, public sector pay pressure and likely collapse of Thames Water - according to an internal “shit list” by chief of staff Sue Gray

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As Rishi Sunak ponders further cuts to grad visas

Boss of top-ranked uni St Andrews warns that visa curbs are ‘blunt instrument’.

Northern unis, in core Tory “levelling up” country, say move wd have huge costs.

Via me, @ft Jennifer Williams

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Nearly 4,000 convicted of Covid rule breaches in England since curbs ended ft.com/content/84dad3… via @ft

STDC is negotiating a deal where the public sector is liable for contamination at Teesworks.

It told the Tees Valley Review it had abandoned these plans.

Brilliant from Jennifer Williams as usual.
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Great use of FoI by Financial Times journalists Anna Gross and Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu. Thread 🧵 x.com/AnnaSophieGros…

Cracking FOI #PostOffice scoop from Financial Times’s Anna Gross & Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu…

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