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  • Pension fund snaps up cut-price government bonds amid Starmer sell-off

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    One of the UK’s largest pension funds has jumped on the turmoil that speculation over Keir Starmer’s future has unleashed on the gilt market, scooping up government bonds at multi-decade low valuations. Standard Life has added to its holding of UK government debt, Morning Wire understands, seizing on a sharp dip in the of the [...]

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