Monday, October 21

FT News Briefing

Forhecz Topher

News, Daily News, News & Politics

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🗓️ 21 October 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Boris Johnson makes a new attempt to win parliament’s backing for his Brexit deal on Monday, UK officials say a Russian cyberattack unit “masqueraded” as Iranian hackers to lead attacks against 35 countries and Standard Chartered chief executive Bill Winters is planning to accept a voluntary pay cut in response to a dispute over his pension allowance. Plus, Canadians will go to the polls in a general election today. FT contributor Jason Kirby reports on what is at stake for prime minister Justin Trudeau.

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0:00.0	The UK's energy partner.
0:06.0	Learn more at equinore.
0:10.0	Good morning from the newsroom of the Financial Times.
0:12.0	Today is Monday, October 21st,
0:15.0	and this is your FT news briefing.
0:18.3	The US and UK are accusing Russian hackers
0:21.0	of masquerading as Iranian hackers. The CEO of Standard Chartered is ready to take a pay cut.
0:26.5	An F.T. contributor Jason Kirby joins me from Toronto where Canadians will vote in the general election today.
0:33.9	But first, Boris Johnson's Brexit plan stalled over the weekend.
0:38.2	Our political editor George Parker explains what will happen next.
0:42.4	I'm Mark Filipino, and here's the news you need to start
0:46.0	your day.
0:47.0	This is George Parker, the political editor of the Financial Times, reporting after a weekend which saw Boris Johnson's
0:54.8	hopes of a Brexit breakthrough dashed in the House of Commons.
0:58.4	We were building up to what people were calling Super Saturday, but in the end MPs did what they do best, which they kicked the can further
1:04.8	down the road.
1:06.2	So now the action moves on to the House of Commons again this week, starting on Monday,
1:11.1	when the government's effectively going to try and have a rerun of the vote
1:13.8	they lost on Saturday.
1:15.8	There's a question mark about whether the Speaker of the House of Commons John Burco will
1:19.2	allow that.
1:20.2	I rather suspect he won't.
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