'Healey to defer defence spend target' and 'Fergie's coming home'

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Any such delay will risk angering the US, according to the Daily Telegraph , external , which says Washington is looking at ways to "incentivise" the UK to increase defence spending. Sarah Ferguson is heading back to the UK after leaving the country when new details emerged about the links to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein earlier this year, according to the Sun.

Senior allies of the prime minister are reported to be calling for an increase in capital gains tax but Lord Jim O'Neill says this would encourage entrepreneurs to leave the country. According to the paper, the proposal is "among measures being drawn up" by Pentagon officials as an incentive to reach "Nato's 5% spending pledge".

It says that Sarah Ferguson is returning from "exile", after "fleeing" the UK when emails she had sent to Jeffrey Epstein were revealed. The former Duchess of York has previously said her friendship with Epstein was a "gigantic error of judgment".

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According to the paper, the proposal is "among measures being drawn up" by Pentagon officials as an incentive to reach "Nato's 5% spending pledge".
Sarah Ferguson is heading back to the UK after leaving the country when new details emerged about the links to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein earlier this year, according to the Sun.
Any such delay will risk angering the US, according to the Daily Telegraph , external , which says Washington is looking at ways to "incentivise" the UK to increase defence spending.
Senior allies of the prime minister are reported to be calling for an increase in capital gains tax but Lord Jim O'Neill says this would encourage entrepreneurs to leave the country.
It says that Sarah Ferguson is returning from "exile", after "fleeing" the UK when emails she had sent to Jeffrey Epstein were revealed.
The former Duchess of York has previously said her friendship with Epstein was a "gigantic error of judgment".

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