For Bush senior, the consequences of “read my lips” were devastating. Having accepted the need for higher taxes in 1990, the words undermined his 1992 election prospects. Multiple apologies counted ...

Britain’s financial regulator has said it will “fundamentally reshape” its plan to “name and shame” more of the companies it investigates after the proposals provoked a major backlash in the City of ...

BioNTech will make $800mn in upfront payments to Biotheus, a drugmaker based in Guangdong province, with milestone payments of up to $150mn. Uğur Şahin, chief executive of BioNTech, said the company ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Near the end of last year, Alan Bennett announced that for the first time in four decades he would not publish ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Days after being hit with a hefty ...

Ministers have launched a review into how UK train operators handle suspected fare evasion, following “egregious” examples of passengers facing prosecution for minor ticketing errors.

Health secretary Wes Streeting plans to name England’s failing trusts and sack poor bosses in bid to raise performance ...

For her first major project as artistic director of Silkroad and its titular Ensemble, which brings together classical and ...

P&O Ferries has received hundreds of millions of pounds in loans from its Dubai-based owner DP World as the embattled company struggles to recover from years of crisis.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. SSE said its chief executive Alistair Phillips-Davies would retire next year after more than 11 years in charge ...

Shares in Siemens Energy jumped 20 per cent to a new all-time high on Wednesday, after the energy technology company raises ...

Germany will hold elections in just over 100 days after chancellor Olaf Scholz’s SPD and the centre-right CDU struck a deal ...