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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during a press conference at the West Block on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on April 14, 2026. Andrej Ivanov | Afp | Getty ImagesCanadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Thursday returned fire after Trump administration Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick claimed Ottawa tanked trade talks with the U.S. for political purposes.”I don’t think, with all respect, appointed, unelected cabinet members in the United States are experts on Canadian politics,” Carney said during a press conference in Thunder Bay in northwest Ontario.”We are always going to stand up for what’s in the best interest…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The writer is group chief executive of Nesta, a UK innovation charity“Take back control”, once the slogan for leaving the EU, is now the animating idea of the Burnham government. Nationalising Thames Water or regulating local bus networks have been mooted as ways of protecting customers from rising costs and poor service. But state action can also create wealth. As India and China have shown, public control can stimulate market dynamism rather than replace it, nurturing world-class industries in turn.Last year, the…

Badenoch repeated existing Conservative plans to fund an increase in defence spending, including by reimposing the two-child benefit cap. The cap, which was scrapped by Labour in April, meant parents could only claim universal credit or tax credits for their first two children.She said the final part of her party’s plans to reach the 3% spending figure on defence had now been completed.The Tories said this would include saving at least £4bn through reforms to housing benefit and removing the VAT exemption for Motability vehicles, saving £1bn.”Alongside savings from the disastrous Chagos deal and re-purposing money from the British Business…

Leon Black, then-CEO of Apollo Global Management, at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, May 1, 2018.Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesFormer Apollo Global Management CEO Leon Black sued the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Thursday seeking to block two subpoenas issued to him for nondisclosure agreements in connection with its investigation of his ties to notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.Black was due to appear before the Oversight committee on Thursday morning but is refusing to do so, according to his lawyers. A top Democrat on the panel called on it to formally…

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Reform has been critical of measures contained in the bill and the impact they could have on funding the party receives from donors.There are currently no restrictions on the amount of money UK-based donors can give to political parties and politicians.Labour MP Stella Creasy said donations from individuals and companies giving £1m or more had “surged” in the last decade and gave examples for different political parties.Among those she named was British billionaire Christopher Harborne, a Thailand-based businessman, who is one of Reform’s biggest backers. Last year he gave a single donation of £9m to Reform – the biggest single…

Downing Street says 45 extra police officers are being deployed to French beaches in a “surge team” to tackle larger dinghies with more people packed onto them.Earlier on Tuesday, Home Office Minister Anna Turley said the officers were “just part of the armoury” of more than 1,000 officers on northern French beaches who are now doing “actual intervention” in the water.She told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that videos in recent weeks “show them going to the boats, slashing them, pushing people back, being bombarded with stones and bricks and coming under a lot of challenge to do that, so…

Friedrich Merz has vowed to do all he can to stop the far-right Alternative for Germany taking power in Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday. In practice, that has meant staying largely out of sight.On Monday, the first of the chancellor’s two campaign appearances in the eastern state involved no grand rally, no set-piece speech and no cheering supporters. Instead, he joined local officials for a closed-door discussion, then took a stroll through the gardens of the castle hosting the event.The low-key visit, even as his Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is forecast to lose heavily to the AfD, reflects the German leader’s unpopularity.…

Former veterans minister Tobias Ellwood has accused the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of deliberately withholding the medical records of Cold War veterans who oversaw nuclear tests, calling it “an absolute cover-up”. Ellwood told BBC Newsnight he now believes some information he gave to Parliament about the UK’s nuclear programme, based on MoD briefings, was “a complete lie”.Veterans have campaigned for the release of their medical histories, arguing blood and urine test results could help them prove that nuclear exposure damaged their health.An MoD spokesperson said the government had conducted an “extensive records discovery exercise” to address questions about the programme,…

Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested Thursday that there is a “chance” at “peace” with Ukraine, but said Kyiv’s warnings to airlines to avoid Russian airspace amounted to “state terrorism.” “Ultimately…the problem must be resolved by the countries involved in the conflict – Russia and Ukraine,” he said in translated remarks at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, a city in Eastern Russia. “Is there a chance [at peace]? In my view, yes, there is.”It comes after NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Wednesday said Russia is becoming “increasingly reckless,” citing missiles and drones crossing Europe’s eastern flank, and an alleged Russian…