Whitehall has been quietly calling in foreign takeover bids for UK defence firms at a rate of two a month. The US-UK drug deal could cost the NHS £45bn and cause 229,000 excess deaths by 2036, per new BMJ analysis. And Andy Burnham's tax plans are already spooking investors into rushing asset sales.

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Defence sector in the crosshairs Ministers have intervened in 24 foreign takeover attempts on British companies over the past year via the Investment...