There are several reasons the IMF predicts the UK will perform worse than any major economy in 2023, even Russia. Brexit is one, with a dampening effect not just on EU trade but on Britain's ability to tackle its other problems.
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London bureau chief, recovering White House correspondent, The New York Times; author, “Alter Egos” (Random House)
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Fascinating look at Taiwan's cat warrior" in Washington: Bi-Khim Hsiao, friend of John Bolton and Kurt Campbell, wired at the White House, and a skilled advocate for her homeland in a diplomatic grey zone.
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Best line at Davos Ukraine breakfast: after Chrystia Freeland of Canada uses a hockey metaphor to call for Western support for Ukraine, Boris Johnson sums up: "Tell Putin to get the puck out of Ukraine."
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Old friends: Boris Johnson listens to Volodymyr Zelensky appeal for military support, via video link, at Ukraine's heavily-attended breakfast in Davos.
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China is back at Davos to reassure the world, "all is normal." With rising Covid deaths, slowing growth, a shrinking population, and fears of a move on Taiwan, its message is being met with wariness. W/
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Rishi Sunak told Joe Biden he'd resolve the Northern Ireland trade dispute with the EU by April, the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. This week could tell whether he's on track to fulfill that promise.
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Amid all the starry names in Harry's book are the shadowy trio of Bee, Wasp, and Fly. Behind these nicknames are three powerful courtiers, whom Harry accuses of thwarting him at every pass. One of them now runs the UK's civil service.
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Prince Harry's memoir looks like the final bridge burned. But some royal experts say King Charles and his son need to find some accommodation, if only to prevent an absent Harry from overshadowing his dad's coronation.
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Joe Biden to name Joe Kennedy III as his special envoy to Northern Ireland. But the job will be narrowly defined as economic and investment promotion. Any US lobbying of the UK and EU on their trade dispute will be done at a higher level.
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Forget Boris and Trump. The more intriguing comparison is Rishi Sunak and Joe Biden, two leaders who have made a virtue of boring governance. Will Sunak get a Biden bounce? W/
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The real "Nanny Diaries:" goes to the elite UK school that trains the pros who look after the little ones of Roger Federer, Mick Jagger, and the royal family. A fascinating read.
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Prince William has landed in Boston. Hours earlier, he condemned his godmother, an aide to the late queen, for racism after she asked a Black British guest at Buckingham Palace: "Where are you from?"
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A decade ago, UNESCO declared Manx a dead language. But kids at a school on the Isle of Man objected, part of an unlikely revival of an ancient tongue. Fascinating dispatch from
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56% of Britons now think Brexit was a mistake; only 32% think it was the right decision. What changed? The gravest economic crisis in a generation. No wonder there are rumors that Britain is looking for a closer relationship with the E.U.
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Rishi Sunak must sell Britons on austerity. A hard task for an ex-Goldman guy, who cut taxes on banks, left in place uncapped bonuses for bankers, and refused to eliminate non-dom tax privileges. W/
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Eight weeks ago, Britain was the test bed for Reagan-style tax cuts. Today, it got an austerity budget, with tax hikes and spending cuts. Our full report on the UK's epic fiscal correction.
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Double-digit inflation, recession, rising interest rates, and coming Thursday, tax hikes and deep spending cuts. Britain has been turbulent since the Brexit vote. But this time, the crisis is of a different order.
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Hunger, lack of medical care, sleeping in soggy clothes on crumpled boxes. Four teenagers recount the harrowing conditions inside the asylum center at the heart of the UK's migrant crisis.
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The White House is relieved that Rishi Sunak kept on Boris Johnson's defense secretary. But Sunak may be less happy to share a spotlight with Boris at COP27. It's all part of the tangled role that Johnson is playing in his rival's government.
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Rishi Sunak's Home Secretary is accused of security violations and ignoring legal advice on how to handle asylum seekers. Her response? To describe them as an "invasion." W/
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For Rishi Sunak, a wealthy Brexiteer, his father-in-law's company raises another awkward issue: Infosys is one of the world's largest outsourcers, a target of lawsuits and anger in the US.
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With today's confirmation that Prince Harry’s memoir pubs on Jan. 10, 2023, here's our story raising the key question: has the juicy stuff been taken out?
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He's rich, his wife didn't pay her fair share of taxes, and he'll never understand the anxieties of ordinary folks. Labour's campaign against Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is obvious, but not without risks.
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Rishi Sunak, Day 1: a well-received speech that calmed British politics. A diverse cabinet that goes beyond loyalists. But the return of a hardline Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, who wants to cut immigration numbers.
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Rishi Sunak's ascent to 10 Downing Street is both a remarkable comeback and a historical milestone. My full report on another epochal day in British politics.
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From Barack Obama to Donald Trump. From Boris Johnson to Rishi Sunak. That moment when you realize your reporting career has come full circle.
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As the UK's Conservatives oust their fourth PM and agonize over whether to bring back her disgraced predecessor, how Brexit has turned the world's most successful political party into a hopeless battlefield of warring factions.
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Four Scaramuccis: Why the UK's prime minister, Liz Truss, resigned after only 44 days in office. Me and
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Turns out when Boris Johnson said, "Hasta la vista, baby," he might only have meant 50 days. The rising chances of a Boris restoration.
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Liz Truss's downfall was triggered by fluctuations in exchange rates and bond yields, not the bitter departures of her ministers or the hothouse anxieties of Conservative lawmakers. My analysis.
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China is offering former R.A.F. pilots $270,000 a year to train P.L.A. pilots in Western tactics. About 30 have signed up. UK defense ministry says it's a national security threat but has few legal tools to stop them.
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For all the shock and dismay at the fiasco of Liz Truss, this was a crisis foretold. "Borrowing your way out of inflation isn't a plan," Rishi Sunak said while running against her. "It's a fairy tale."
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Liz Truss is on the horns of a "trilemma:" Stick to her tax cuts, with no spending cuts, and torpedo the pound. Cut spending and lose her Tory MP's. Reverse her tax cuts and destroy her credibility. W/
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A shorter ceremony, reduced guest list, and fewer rituals. But it's still a coronation, the first in Britain in seven decades. May 6 in Westminster Abbey.
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How far have the ripples from the UK's budget fiasco gone? Kim Darroch, former UK envoy to DC, is at a tech conference on Komodo Island in Indonesia, where he says "bemusement" over the Truss-Kwarteng "shambles" is Topic A.
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So happy for on the publication of "Confidence Man." Before she produced this essential study of Donald Trump, she generously helped many of her NYT colleagues try to make sense of him, too.
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Kwasi Kwarteng is a Cambridge PhD who studied financial crises of the past. When he became chancellor of the Exchequer, he ignored the experts and ignited a new one.
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There are many things wrong with how the UK government rolled out its supply-side economic program. But Liz Truss's tin ear for the human cost of spiking interest rates on homeowners is not a small factor.
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The queen's death signaled the end of an era of British soft power. The collapse of the pound signals that decline in another dimension. , with an ode to sterling.
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Liz Truss ran for Downing Street as a tax cutter and apostle of supply-side economics. She delivered her free-market agenda, and now it threatens to torpedo her government.
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