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Good morning.

From the newsroom of the Financial Times.

Today is Tuesday, March 19th, and this is your FT news briefing.

Today, it looks like Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal won't get another vote this week.

2019 is turning out to be the year for consolidation in the FinTech industry

and US farmers are being cut out of the Japanese market.

Then the FT's Shannon Bond explains how ride-hailing

company Lift plans to pitch investors before its upcoming IPO. I'm Eric

Krupky and here's the news you need to start your day.

I'm Henry Mance, I'm a political correspondent for the FT in Westminster. And Monday was shaping up to be a pretty quiet day in British politics,

but actually British politics doesn't have pretty quiet day in British politics but actually British

politics doesn't have many quiet days in the middle of the afternoon

unexpected the speaker of the House of Commons made an announcement.

What the government cannot legitimately do is to resubmit to the house the same proposition

which was rejected by 149 votes. Theresa May is gathering some momentum for her Brexit deal.

She may not quite have a majority, but she may have one soon.

She'll need to really make it very different from the deal that MPs rejected last week in order just to clear the first herbal of getting it in

front of Parliament. She's also got the practicality of what would bring people on

board and many of the people who reject her deal at the moment are her own MPs and what they're telling

her is they want her to quit and that's because they feel the last two to three years

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