Laurence Fletcher

Deputy Markets News Editor @FT. Hedge funds, human rights, fine wine. Ex-WSJ, Reuters. Liverpudlian. Views my own. Tips: [email protected]

[Laurence Fletcher @journofletcher]

Delighted to win the Journalist of the Year - Alternatives award at the 2023 State Street UK Institutional Press Awards for my deep dive into how Citadel cracked the natural gas market https://t.co/ikTTdr5qFW

[Divock Origi @DivockOrigi]

My purpose in the game is fulfilled ⭐️

I lived out my childhood dreams, played on the biggest stages, won the biggest trophies. Grateful to God for all of it.

To all my fans, the clubs, my teammates and my family: this will forever be ours. Thank you.

The mission is complete. Now I step into my next calling.

More of the journey to come.

Love,

Divock Origi

[Gabriel Pogrund @Gabriel_Pogrund]

Timeline as I understand it.

- 3 December 2025: @elenicourea @PippaCrerar report that Doyle has been offered a peerage

- 4 December 2025: McSweeney warned about Doyle/Morton association at Scottish Labour gala; PM's new co-chief of staff, Jill Cuthbertson, told around the same time

- Post 4 December 2025: No10 launches inquiry into Doyle/Morton links

- 10 December 2025: Doyle appears on political peerages list

- 27 December 2025: Sunday Times splashes details of relationship; No10 claims it "thoroughly investigated" the matter and is satisfied no issues; Downing St will not says who conducted several interviews with Doyle or what they asked/discovered

- 7 January 2026: 9 MPs submit motion expressing concerns about the peerage

- 8 January 2026: Letters patent sealed, confirming Doyle peerage

- 12 January 2026: Doyle introduced to the chamber

- 10 February 2026: Doyle was whip suspended

[Sam Coates Sky @SamCoatesSky]

👀NEW Heidi Alexander is claiming couldn’t stop the Doyle peerage once announced as no established process

But I understand the Tories spoke to Lords clerks earlier who told them ‘we are not aware of any barriers to HMG stopping or delaying an appointment to the House before letters patent are sealed’

So there were no barriers to cancelling Doyle peerage post press release

[Nishant Kumar @nishantkumar07]

EXCLUSIVE: The anti-celebrity hedge fund star. 18 years, no losing year, billions in gains. Meet Minal Bathwal, the little-known macro trader who ranks among Brevan Howard’s five biggest profit-makers with Alan Howard and Chris Rokos. Story with @BeiHu1 https://t.co/Dq4ETQCLF0

[Laurence Fletcher @journofletcher]

12 former #police officers would've faced gross misconduct proceedings for "fundamental failures" on day of Hillsborough disaster and "concerted efforts" to blame fans. IOPC upheld or found cases to answer for misconduct in 92 complaints https://t.co/V2R3facREu

[Jonathan Eley @JonathanEley]

Oh
So people who saved to provide for their retirement get taxed - and those that didn’t don’t?

[Laurence Fletcher @journofletcher]

Revised tax data shows payroll employment has fallen by 180,000 since Rachel Reeves announced higher taxes on employers in last year’s Budget @FinancialTimes on UK unemployment rising to 5% and wage growth slowing https://t.co/Z3nlmKXUwd #nationalinsurance #tax #jobs #budget

[Jonathan Eley @JonathanEley]

Dotcom-era “entrepreneur” Robert Bonnier loses fraud case brought by Nick Candy
Here’s last year’s @journofletcher investigation into the whole charade https://t.co/M5aVdY1eK6…

[i24NEWS English @i24NEWS_EN]

Yad Vashem marks historic milestone: 5 million Holocaust victims identified
After seven decades of painstaking work, Israel’s Holocaust memorial has recorded over 80% of the known victims, with AI expected to help recover thousands more.
READ MORE HERE: https://t.co/jY434knFq1

[BBC Merseyside @bbcmerseyside]

Japanese ambassador calls scouse dish 'boss scran' https://t.co/E1IdAd74Ae

[Laurence Fletcher @journofletcher]

@DmitryKovalchuk @FTAlphaville @MartinShkreli Why?

[Laurence Fletcher @journofletcher]

What do Lady Gaga, billionaire Facebook investor Sean Parker, cigar-smoking financier Florian Homm and #pharma fraudster Martin Shkreli have in common? My deep dive into an unusual #biopharma working on a potentially #blockbuster product https://t.co/tAP1xd4cP4 via @FTAlphaville

[FT Press Office @FTPressOffice]

The @FT won five awards at the 2025 WTW Media Awards which celebrate excellence in business journalism. Congratulations to Claer Barrett, Laurence Fletcher, Moira O'Neill and Stephanie Hawthorne.

[Laurence Fletcher @journofletcher]

@RachelReevesMP “With more and more companies stating they will cut back on hiring and investment to deal with the rising costs related to the #Budget, the question will be, where will #growth actually come from?” asked Isaac Stell, Investment Manager at Wealth Club. https://t.co/ho3FWYaN8F

[Andrew Sentance @asentance]

What employers are complaining about. Higher Living Wage (minimum wage) and increased employer Nat Insurance imply over 10 percent rise in wage costs for lowest paid employees and over 6pc rise in average wage costs next spring, adding to inflation + squeezing investment & jobs.

[Laurence Fletcher @journofletcher]

John Lewis chief criticises UK #Budget as ‘two-handed grab’ from business https://t.co/M2VhZUSnA6 via @ft

[TISE @tisegroup]

Last week we were named among the @FT Reinvention Champions 2024 & the FT’s Deputy Markets News Editor @journofletcher wrote a profile.

Read it here: https://t.co/yNlvnXvbNb

Read our summary here: https://t.co/QYPUa5DAni

#reinventionchampions #privatemarkets #privateassets

[Laurence Fletcher @journofletcher]

The unlikeliest Trump trade ever? #Ukraine’s bonds jump as investors bet #Trump will end war https://t.co/TqNmOgYFYX via @ft w @jsphctrl

[Laurence Fletcher @journofletcher]

The #Guernsey #stockexchange trying to break into the booming private market secondaries sector. Read the @FT's take here. #privateequity #markets https://t.co/2DYg1Zimi7 via @ft

[Laurence Fletcher @journofletcher]

??!! "I think that what you say as a backbencher and what you do wearing the real duty of public office are two different things" https://t.co/p3NIJBDujo