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Good morning from the newsroom of the Financial Times.

Today is Tuesday, September 3rd, and this is your FT news briefing.

German manufacturers depended on exports have been burnt by Brexit.

Merger talks between two high profile law firms have fallen apart,

and the FT's Hannah Cushler goes into the history of the health organization

spun out of Google's secretive research facility.

The first, the F.T.'s George Parker unpacks the strategy from UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson

over Brexit negotiations. I'm Mark

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

I'm George Parker at the Financial Times here at the House of Commons at Westminster

where Boris Johnson yesterday dramatically raised the stakes in the battle over Brexit,

basically announcing that Britain will have a general election on the 14th of October if MPs at

Westminster today try to tie his hands over as a negotiating strategy.

It's setting up a huge showdown with his own MPs, around 15 to 20 Conservative MPs, threatening to

side with other opposition parties to stop Boris Johnson taking Britain out

of the EU without a deal at the end of October.

The key vote will happen today at Westminster and Boris Johnson has made it clear

that if he's defeated on this and his power over the Brexit negotiation is taken away and the threat of a no-deal

exit is taken out of his armory. He will consider that to be a confidence vote

which will trigger an immediate general election campaign with a views having an election on

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