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What’s next for the UK after Starmer?

Keir Starmer has resigned as British prime minister, private equity executives are borrowing against their future share of profits, and former US Federal Reserve chair Alan Greenspan died at the age of 100. Plus, the FT’s Andean correspondent Joe Daniels traveled to a rural part ...  Show more

Starmer on brink of quitting as UK prime minister

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer could be on his way out of Westminster, and the US and Iran held high-stakes talks in Switzerland to officially end the war. Venture capital funds are rushing into defense tech startups on the back of the world’s wars, and the FT’s Claire Jones expl ...  Show more

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