Boris Johnson’s bruising no-confidence vote

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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 vote

Elon Musk threatens to abandon $44bn Twitter takeover

Big Tech pulls out all the stops to halt ‘self-preferencing’ antitrust bill

The 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. 

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