UK ministers consider biggest ever renewable subsidy auction

• UK ministers reject union calls to lift public sector pay to pre-austerity levels

  Downing Street says wages can rise above inflation only with productivity gains to match
  
  Financial Times - 14h
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  BBC News - 20h
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  UK 'keeping close eye' on British jihadists

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• Review of £1.2tn in UK public spending will ‘be tight’, minister warns

  Treasury chief secretary Darren Jones launches line-by-line assessment to find 5% savings
  
  Financial Times - 1d
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  China Auto Sales Sustain Momentum on Subsidies, Campaigns

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  The Wall Street Journal - 2d

• Global green subsidy race draws investor attention

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  MLS commissioner Don Garber teases switch to European calendar: 'We are considering, more than ever before'

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  UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer Is Fighting Populism From the Lonely Center Ground

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