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Boris Johnson’s bruising no-confidence vote
FromFT News Briefing
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10 minutes
Released:
Jun 7, 2022
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Boris Johnson on Monday night survived a bruising no-confidence vote, and Elon Musk’s legal team has written to Twitter threatening to abort his $44bn acquisition. Plus, the FT’s Kiran Stacey reports on Big Techs’ big fight against an effort by US lawmakers to halt the practice of “self-preferencing”. Mentioned in this podcast:Weakened Johnson scrapes through after damaging confidence voteElon Musk threatens to abandon $44bn Twitter takeoverBig Tech pulls out all the stops to halt ‘self-preferencing’ antitrust billThe FT News Briefing is produced by Fiona Symon, Sonja Hutson and Marc Filippino. The show’s editor is Jess Smith. Additional help by Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Released:
Jun 7, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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