NHS in England needs three more years to recover from Covid, says chair on.ft.com/44lFuj4

🚨🚨I went to Anglesey Freeport, part of Michael Gove’s “unfinished cathedral” of levelling up…you can see that freeports make sense locally, as economic place-making tools, even if OBR says they’ll make no odds nationally/1

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Premier League moves closer towards introducing salary cap on.ft.com/3Uj3eQn

Humza Yousaf’s exit plunges The SNP into turmoil as The Labour Party eyes Scottish seats ft.com/content/830025… via @ft

A multi-billion pound corner of the rail industry will remain firmly in private hands even under labour’s vision for a publicly owned railway. Today’s read on rolling stock companies w/ Jim Pickard 🐋 ft.com/content/97d22b…

'The revelation of the deaths follows warnings from local government and campaigners about the risks posed by the industry-led switch-over, which affects landlines and devices such as personal alarms.'

great reporting by Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu

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What could possibly go wrong? ft.com/content/b0b1c3…

Labour plans to retain key private sector role in Britain’s nationalised railways on.ft.com/44eVX8E

Tonight we celebrate Miles Johnson of the Financial Times for winning the Malcolm Forbes and Morton Frank Award for “Wagner Inc: The Criminal Empire of Yevgeny Prigozhin.” Watch the acceptance speech here: youtu.be/EDu22SF35dw #OPCAwards85

Cross-party business select committee says Gove “must” send National Audit Office into Teesworks to “assure the public taxpayers’ money has been disbursed appropriately and legally”
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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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Fascinating piece on Reform UK's unusual structure by Rafe Uddin

Nigel Farage insists he's not a politician — but within the rightwing populist party, he's kingmaker... Company fillings show he owns a 53% share!

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A morality tale of English local government finance - Jennifer Williams Robert Smith Clara Murray ft.com/content/acf745…

Ukraine is set to increase long-range attacks inside Russia as an influx of western military aid aims to help Kyiv shape the war “in much stronger ways”, the head of the UK military, Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, told
Financial Times [email protected]

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NEW: Sadiq Khan says UK should agree a youth mobility scheme with EU, in a sharp break from Labour's frosty response to the EU Commission's proposal last week

In interview with Financial Times, London mayor rejects Labour/govt remarks likening YMS to free movement

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Is Britain suffering from a ‘sick note culture’? ft.com/content/931940… via @ft

NEW: Tories are heading into the general election defending scores of seats with some of the worst waiting times for routine hospital treatment in England, according to a Financial Times analysis.

Data complied by the wonderful Janina Conboye ft.com/content/eced67… via @ft

Rishi Sunak exposed over NHS queues as Tory seats among UK’s worst areas < good ⁦Financial Times⁩ piece ft.com/content/eced67…

'official data suggests that both the diagnosis, and the proposed solutions, are flawed'

Is Britain suffering from a ‘sick note culture’? ft.com/content/931940… via @ft

Sunak exposed over NHS queues as Tory seats among UK’s worst areas ift.tt/exzECSy