MPs have voted to wrest control of Brexit from Prime Minister Theresa May for a day in a bid to find a way through the European Union divorce impasse that a majority in parliament could support.

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Companies should link the pay of top bosses to that of the rest of their workforce, says the Business Select Committee pointing to pay of FTSE 100 bosses growing four times as much as national average earnings.

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Christine Lagarde, MD of the International Monetary Fund, has joined the growing clamour to further tax tech firms Google, Facebook and Amazon as part of a wider review of “outdated” global corporation tax rules.

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McDonald’s is spending about $300m to buy an artificial intelligence company, allowing the restaurant group to customise its menu displays based on variables such as the weather and the time of day.