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Good morning from the newsroom of the Financial Times.

Today is Wednesday, October 30th,

and this is your FT news briefing.

Fiat Chrysler and Puyo's parent company

have helped talks about a possible merger, and U.S. Senators slammed Boeing's chief executive

during yesterday's hearing.

But first, British MPs have finally agreed to a general election.

The F.T.'s Robert Trimsley explains why the December 12

poll will be one of the most divisive in recent UK history. I'm Mark

Filipino and here's the news you need to start your day. Boris Johnson, it has to be said, is taking a huge political gamble.

There's quite a high chance that Brexit will be lost if he loses, and there is absolutely no guarantee he wins.

But he has made the calculation that if he can't get his deal through, his next best bet is to go to

the country saying, let me finish off what you asked us to do let me deliver you Brexit

Parliament is stopping me I need your help to get this done he's calculated that's

his best chance of success he'd also look at the opinion polls which show that the

official opposition the Lane Party is floundering

and way way behind that people have fed up with its leader Jeremy Corbyn, although it's worth

noting that it was in exactly this position in terms of the opinion polls before the last

election in 2017 and pulled right back to make it a real nail-biter so you can't

take that for granted. Of the other parties the Liberal Democrats the small

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