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Good morning from the newsroom of the Financial Times.

Today is Monday, November 25th. Good morning from the newsroom of the Financial Times.

Today is Monday, November 25th,

and this is your FT news briefing.

Voters turned out in record numbers

to support Hong Kong's pro-democracy candidates in yesterday's elections.

Boris Johnson lays out his 10-year vision for a post-Brexit Britain,

and Michael Bloomberg officially launches his 2020 campaign.

Then we'll switch gears into mergers and acquisitions

as I check in with the F.T.'s Eric Platt about LVMH's interest in Tiffany's.

I'm Mark Filipino and here's the news you need to start

your day.

Pro-democracy candidates took more than half of the seats in Hong Kong's local council elections

yesterday. Now normally these elections don't get a lot of attention since Hong Kong district

counselors don't have a lot of political power.

But with ongoing protests

over how much influence China should have over the territory,

nearly 3 million people came out to the polls.

That's a record voter turnout of more than 71% across all territory wide elections.

And the result was that 283 pro-democracy candidates won seats versus 32 seats for pro-establishment forces, according to local media

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