Financial Times - Nov 20
Nov 20 (Reuters) -The following are the top stories in the Financial Times. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
Headlines
- UK cut to fuel payments will push up to 100,000 pensioners into poverty
- Observer staff set to strike over planned Tortoise sale
- UK should use Farage as 'bridgehead' to Trump and Musk, says Mandelson
- Thousands of farmers protest in London against tax changes
Overview
- The UK government's decision to cut winter fuel payments will push up to 100,000 additional pensioners into poverty a year, a government impact assessment has shown.
- Journalists at the Guardian and Observer have voted overwhelmingly to strike over the proposed sale of the Sunday newspaper to digital media start-up Tortoise.
- Peter Mandelson, a former Labour Party government minister, has said the UK should use Reform party leader Nigel Farage and tech billionaire Elon Musk's British "friends" as a "bridgehead" to build relations with Donald Trump's incoming U.S. administration.
- Thousands of farmers have taken to the streets of London in an attempt to overturn the UK government's changes to inheritance tax rules that they warn will kill off family farms and threaten food security.
(Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)
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