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FT News Briefing

Formula One’s road map to success

FT News Briefing

Forhecz Topher

News, Daily News, News & Politics

4.41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

The cost of Rishi Sunak’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda could exceed £580mn by the end of the decade, and Toyota’s bet on hybrid vehicles has paid off, so far. Plus, the FT’s Samuel Agini explains how Formula One is trying to reinvent itself. Credit: Formula 1; Netflix


Mentioned in this podcast:

Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda asylum scheme could cost UK £580mn, watchdog warns

Was Toyota’s bet on hybrid cars right all along?

Formula One’s growing pains


The FT News Briefing is produced by Fiona Symon, Sonja Hutson, Kasia Broussalian and Marc Filippino. Additional help by Sam Giovinco, Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Our engineer is Monica Lopez. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music.


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0:00.0

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0:06.0

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0:10.0

Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Friday, March 1st, and this is your

0:17.2

FT news briefing. We have a show for you today about all the things that move us. Literally we're talking

0:24.9

about cars like Toyota's bed on hybrids. So Toyota's share prices almost doubled

0:30.5

in the last 12 months as people suddenly realize, huh, maybe they were right all along.

0:36.0

And also something a little faster than hybrids.

0:40.0

Formula One from facing existential crisis in the pandemic, they come out flying because there's all this pent-up demand for live events, yes, but also their product.

0:50.0

I'm Mark Filipino, and here's the news you need to start your day. Rishi Sunak's plan to send UK asylum seekers to Rwanda could cost the country at least

1:12.1

580 million pounds by the end of the decade.

1:16.0

If it gets approved, that is.

1:18.0

The Prime Minister is pushing legislation through Parliament

1:21.0

that will declare Rwanda a safe country for asylum seekers.

1:24.5

The 580 million pound estimate which comes from the National Audit Office

1:29.7

is the first complete breakdown of costs. It includes eight payments to Rwanda of

1:35.2

up to 500 million pounds plus another 80 million in operating and set up costs.

1:40.3

The plan has been heavily criticized by charities, rights groups, and opposition MPs.

1:46.0

The price tag is not expected to help with that,

1:49.0

and Sunac's proposal will probably hit a bunch of legal hurdles in the UK as well as in

1:55.6

international courts.

1:58.6

Toyota was absolutely slammed by critics for pouring money into hybrids

2:08.2

instead of focusing on fully electric cars. But the Japanese company's hybrid models have been a massive success. So it seems

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