HIGHLIGHTS FROM Financial Times

• Starmer admits he was warned about picking Mandelson as US ambassador READ
• Pressure grows on Starmer’s chief of staff over Mandelson ambassador appointment READ
• ‘We made a lot of money working together’: Epstein’s in-house trader revealed READ
• Britain can’t ignore Europe and China at the same time READ
• How Anthropic achieved AI coding breakthroughs — and rattled business READ