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I’ve been offered an exciting new role in the City but I’m unsure about the best timing for my resignation. What factors should I consider?Nicola Welchman, partner at Bloomsbury Square Employment Law, says there is always plenty to consider when timing a resignation but particularly when you work in the City, where contracts can be complex and even onerous. First, wait until you have a firm offer and have seen the contractual terms. Your new employer may have made an offer orally but, regrettably, job offers don’t always turn into concrete jobs. There’s always a risk that vetting processes will…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.MPs have voted in favour of reforming abortion legislation in England and Wales to stop women from being prosecuted for ending their pregnancy.In a landmark move, the House of Commons voted by 379 to 137 to decriminalise abortion through an amendment to the government’s crime and policing bill.The amendment tabled by backbench Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi would prevent women being investigated, arrested, prosecuted or imprisoned for terminating their own pregnancies.The proposed change to the law would cover circumstances where an abortion happened…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Trying to outdo its Conservative predecessor in efforts to tax the wealthy has proved a costly own goal for Britain’s Labour government. A wave of “non-doms” — whose permanent home for tax purposes is outside the UK — are emigrating after Labour made their worldwide assets liable for inheritance tax, with a hit to the economy and jobs. Chancellor Rachel Reeves is mulling reversing the decision; she should do so without delay. Yet even that is probably too little, too late, to…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The head of Rolls-Royce has called on the British government to back plans for an engine to power the next generation of narrow-body aircraft, used primarily for short-haul flights.Tufan Erginbilgiç, chief executive of the FTSE 100 aero-engine group, said he would like the government’s upcoming industrial strategy to “support competitively advantaged industries”. Erginbilgiç said that while he was not calling on the government to pick individual industrial champions, Rolls-Royce nevertheless was “distinctive” in two areas: gas turbine engines that power aircraft and nuclear,…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Sir Keir Starmer has admitted the small boats crisis in the English Channel is “deteriorating” despite his election promise to “smash the gangs” trafficking people into the UK. The UK prime minister met French President Emmanuel Macron at the G7 summit in Canada on Tuesday, where the two leaders agreed to boost co-operation in several policy areas at the UK-France summit in London next month.  Number 10 said the leaders confirmed that “migration should be a key focus given the deteriorating situation in the…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Baroness Louise Casey has branded national data collection on grooming gangs a “disaster”, after a failure to measure crimes properly led to inaccuracies in records of group-based child sexual exploitation in England and Wales.“The national data on grooming gangs is incomplete and unreliable. I would say that is putting it mildly,” she told MPs on the home affairs select committee on Tuesday.“I think it’s particularly important if you are collecting those sorts of issues to get them 100 per cent right . . . my…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The UK should continue to conduct its traditional once-a-decade census the country’s statistics authority said on Tuesday, in an admission that alternative data sources cannot yet replace the costly household survey. Sir Robert Chote, chair of the UK Statistics Authority, said it was advising ministers to commission a mandatory questionnaire-based census in England and Wales in 2031, which could be “supported by the growing power of administrative data and new technologies”. There had been plans to scrap or drastically scale back the survey that…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Rachel Reeves has signalled the UK will not lift defence and intelligence spending beyond 2.6 per cent of GDP until the next parliament, despite intense pressure from the US for Nato countries to boost their militaries.The chancellor told a Financial Times event on Tuesday that Britain had cut its foreign aid budget sharply to fund a pledge to hit the 2.6 per cent level by 2027 and had outlined departmental budgets at her spending review.“We have now set that spending for this…

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for freeYour guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the worldSir Keir Starmer will send his top business adviser to Washington next week in a bid to resolve the outstanding trade issues surrounding steel and pharmaceuticals between the two countries, with hopes in London of an agreement in early July.Varun Chandra will join UK embassy trade experts in Washington for talks on steel, aluminium and medical drugs, after Donald Trump decided on Monday to sign off tariff cuts for British carmakers and aerospace firms under the US-UK trade deal.While Trump’s…

This article is an on-site version of our Inside Politics newsletter. Subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every weekday. If you’re not a subscriber, you can still receive the newsletter free for 30 daysGood morning. Will Rachel Reeves change course on non-doms? And will the government be forced to do so over benefits cuts? The two questions are intrinsically linked, for reasons I explain in today’s note. Inside Politics is edited by Georgina Quach. Follow Stephen on Bluesky and X, and Georgina on Bluesky. Read the previous edition of the newsletter here. Please send gossip, thoughts…