The Strategic Defence Review has been billed as a 10-year stock take of UK defence and strategic priorities and will be eagerly read by contractors for hints at the government’s spending plans. This SDR, called by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer when he came to office last July, was undertaken in the shadow of the … Read more
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Marks and Spencer chief executive Stuart Machin received total pay of more than £7mn in the last financial year, a bumper reward ahead of an expected drop in his earnings after April’s devastating cyber attack … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK will need to spend around £68bn to prepare its armed forces for modern warfare, a long-awaited strategic defence review suggests, laying bare the spending pressures on Sir Keir Starmer’s government. The review of … Read more
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Artificial intelligence myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Civil servants who have used artificial intelligence tools for administrative tasks freed up two weeks a year in working time, according to a government trial that ministers said showed how the technology can achieve productivity … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The EU’s climate advisory board has said the bloc should not use international carbon credits to count towards its climate targets, arguing that it would undermine domestic efforts to cut emissions. The advice published on … Read more
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The EU has fined European takeaway groups Delivery Hero and Glovo €329mn for taking part in an “online food delivery cartel”, in the latest antitrust crackdown by the bloc. German food delivery service Delivery Hero … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Union Investment, one of Germany’s largest asset managers, has divested all of its holdings in US oil major ExxonMobil, accusing the company of “insufficient commitment” to climate targets. Henrik Pontzen, Union Investment’s head of sustainability, … Read more
On a typically sunny and breezy day at Lucky Cement in an industrial town outside Karachi, the powerful draughts from the Arabian Sea and Thar Desert and the scorching rays combine to generate more than half of the power it needs thanks to cheap Chinese wind turbines and solar panels. The 5mn tonnes of cement … Read more