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    Lucy Fisher

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    Lucy Fisher is Whitehall editor at the Financial Times and host of the FT's Political Fix podcast. She focuses on UK politics, the civil service, and foreign and defence policy.

    She is the author of two acclaimed books, Emily Wilding Davison: The Martyr Suffragette (2018) and Women in the War: The Last Heroines of Britain’s Greatest Generation (2021). Fisher is also an associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), the world's oldest defence and security think tank.

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    • Friday, 24 November, 2023
      Conservative Party UK
      Tory focus turns to Spring Budget to close gap with Labour ahead of election

      Chancellor Jeremy Hunt under pressure to be bolder in wake of Autumn Statement

      Jeremy Hunt and Rishi Sunak at Nissan factory
    • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
      FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
      Ousted OpenAI board member on AI safety concerns

      Former board member spoke to the FT in the weeks before removing OpenAI chief Sam Altman

    • Wednesday, 22 November, 2023
      Political Fix podcast25 min listen
      Autumn Statement Reaction

      The FT’s top commentators dig into the details of the government’s giveaway budget

    • Wednesday, 22 November, 2023
      Autumn Statement
      Tories predict tax cuts signal early UK election

      Conservative MPs say move is sign Downing Street is looking towards a poll in May or June

      A man shelters from the rain as he arrives at a polling station in London on June 23, 2016
    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      Civil Service UK
      AI ‘hit squad’ set up to cut size of UK civil service and boost productivity

      Oliver Dowden says new unit is ‘closest thing to silver bullet’ to drive efficiencies for the taxpayer

      Oliver Dowden speaks in an interview
    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      Autumn Statement
      Sunak says lower inflation has opened way to UK tax cuts

      In run-up to Autumn statement, prime minister sets battle lines for coming general election

      Rishi Sunak in north London on Monday
    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      Aerospace & Defence
      Middle East conflict restarts German debate on selling jets to Saudi Arabia

      Israel-Hamas war has prompted several ministers in Berlin to reconsider relations with Gulf kingdom

      German Chancellor Olaf Scholz sits in the cockpit of a German Eurofighter plane
    • Friday, 17 November, 2023
      UK government spending
      Investment arm of UK international development to focus on poorest countries

      Targeting half of BII’s budget on fragile states will lead to a ‘big change’ in how money is distributed, says minister Andrew Mitchell

      Development minister Andrew Mitchell
    • Friday, 17 November, 2023
      David Cameron
      How David Cameron tried to make his fortune with cash from China

      Former prime minister, now the UK’s top diplomat, sought hundreds of millions of dollars from CIC for his UK-China fund

      David Cameron
    • Thursday, 16 November, 2023
      FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
      Sunak grapples with ruling on flagship asylum plan

      EU toughens measures on illegal shipments of Russian oil

    • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
      Labour Party UK
      Starmer suffers major rebellion over Israel-Hamas war

      More than 50 Labour MPs defy their party leader to call for a ceasefire in Gaza

    • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
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      Braverman claims Sunak ‘repeatedly failed’ on immigration

      Stinging letter comes a day after dismissal as UK home secretary

      Suella Braverman and her letter to Rishi Sunak
    • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
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      David Cameron joined by familiar faces as he returns to UK politics

      New foreign secretary attends first cabinet in more than 7 years after Rishi Sunak reshuffles top team

      Foreign secretary David Cameron and minister for development in the foreign office Andrew Mitchell
    • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
      News in-depthDavid Cameron
      David Cameron brings experience and baggage as he returns to politics

      For the first time since the 1970s, a former UK prime minister is returning to cabinet

    • Monday, 13 November, 2023
      News in-depthConservative Party UK
      Sunak sets up fight with Tory right as he brings back Cameron

      UK prime minister gives politically damaged predecessor top role weeks after casting himself as a change candidate

      Composite images of David Cameron and Rishi Sunak
    • Monday, 13 November, 2023
      Work & Careers
      Whitehall seeks to turbocharge recruitment from the private sector

      Attracting external staff to Britain’s civil service is part of the plan to boost productivity

      A portrait of Cat Little outside the Treasury in Whitehall
    • Sunday, 12 November, 2023
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      Oliver Dowden says revisions to National Security and Investment Act will lower burden on business

      Oliver Dowden said he wanted to ensure ‘government regulation keeps up with the dynamism of the private sector’
    • Friday, 10 November, 2023
      Civil Service UK
      Whitehall mandarin Alex Chisholm to leave UK civil service

      Permanent secretary at the Cabinet Office will not seek a further term

    • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
      UK politics
      Braverman’s job on the line after she defied Sunak

      UK prime minister under pressure to sack home secretary after Times piece criticising Met police provokes fierce backlash

      Suella Braverman, pictured in October
    • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
      News in-depthSuella Braverman
      ‘She’s toast’: Braverman dares Sunak with provocative rhetoric

      UK home secretary risks the sack as she builds her leadership ambitions on a foundation of controversial remarks

      Composite photos of Suella Braverman and Rishi Sunak
    • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
      UK Government
      Gove asks Treasury for £50mn to counter radical ideologies

      Move comes as Rishi Sunak concedes pro-Palestinian march will go ahead on Sunday

      A protester waves Palestinian flags sitting on a red telephone box on Whitehall during the ‘March For Palestine’ in London
    • Wednesday, 8 November, 2023
      Sustainability
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      Ministers intend to unveil formal proposals as early as January against backdrop of global crackdown

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    • Tuesday, 7 November, 2023
      UK politics
      King’s Speech begins countdown to next UK general election

      Package marks Rishi Sunak’s last legislative pitch to voters ahead of poll expected by autumn 2024

      King Charles, sitting next to Queen Camilla, delivers his speech in the House of Lords
    • Tuesday, 7 November, 2023
      UK politics
      King’s Speech: a guide to the UK’s new legislative programme

      PM Rishi Sunak wants to enact 21 bills before the next election ranging across energy, crime and technology

    • Monday, 6 November, 2023
      UK politics
      King’s Speech to set out political battle lines ahead of UK election

      Rishi Sunak will try to sharpen the political divide with bills on tougher sentencing and North Sea oil drilling

      Prince Charles delivers the Queen’s Speech during the state opening of Parliament at the House of Lords on May 10 2022
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