Financial Times

The Financial Times reports on China’s retaliation after a number of countries imposed sanctions for its treatment of the Uyghur people.

Boris Johnson will call on EU leaders this week to veto a plan to block vaccine exports to the UK, the Financial Times reports.

The government is desperately searching for a buyer for Liberty Steel, Britain’s third biggest steel company, in a bid to stop it collapsing, reports the Financial Times.

Former PM David Cameron urged his ex-colleagues to give Greensill Capital better access to government-backed COVID-19 loan schemes, the Financial Times reports. Mr Cameron became an adviser to the company in 2018. 

The Financial Times leads on the NHS warning that coronavirus vaccine supplies in the UK will be reduced from 29 March.People under 50 will not be called for an appointment unless they qualify as vulnerable, a front line worker or an unpaid carer.

The Financial Times says Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been accused by senior Tory MPs of going soft on China after Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said Britain would seek trade deals with countries that breached international human rights standards.

European countries including Germany, France, Italy and Spain have suspended use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, even though medicines regulators and the World Health Organisation say there is no evidence of problems, reports the international edition of the Financial Times.

Online payments processor Stripe becomes the most valuable private company Silicon Valley has ever produced, the Financial Times reports.

The Financial Times leads on the EU’s “vaccine woes” as it was announced AstraZeneca delivery targets will be missed, several EU nations suspended use of the jab over blood clot fears and it appears less likely the US will supply extra doses. Read more on this story here.