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Verity Ratcliffe
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Verity Ratcliffe

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Energy Correspondent at the Financial Times. Opinions are my own. https://t.co/Pv2NcX0Noe

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Last Front PageMAY 27, 2026Latest appearance

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BP unseats Manifold as chair after ‘serious concerns’ over his conduct

Fresh upheaval for UK oil major ● Friction with new chief O’Neill ● ‘Shouty’ style jars with staff

View Front PageFinancial Times • MAY 27, 2026

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BP unseats Manifold as chair after ‘serious concerns’ over his conduct

Fresh upheaval for UK oil major ● Friction with new chief O’Neill ● ‘Shouty’ style jars with staff

With:Malcolm Moore,Arash Massoudi
FT
Financial Times•MAY 27, 2026•Lead Story
The story is framed as a matter of corporate governance and internal leadership friction, focusing on professional conduct and interpersonal management styles within a major multinational corporation.
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Fuel reserves near ‘critically low’ level, says Saudi Aramco

Fresh alarm over Hormuz strait crisis ● 100mn barrels of oil lost each week

FT
Financial Times•MAY 12, 2026•Lead Story
The paper highlights the material impact of the Hormuz strait crisis on global energy supply, framing the conflict primarily through its disruption of commodity markets and inventory depletion.
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Oil price surges after Trump warns he ‘does not want’ to lift blockade on Iran

Crude closes in on $120 a barrel ● Inflation fears hit European bonds ● Fed holds rates amid turmoil

FT
Financial Times•APR 30, 2026•Lead Story
The paper frames geopolitical tensions primarily through their immediate macroeconomic impacts, directly linking US political rhetoric to commodity price spikes and central bank policy dilemmas.
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Opec dealt blow as frustration with oil export quotas drives UAE to exit cartel

With:Andrew England
FT
Financial Times•APR 29, 2026
Reports a significant structural disruption to global energy markets driven by internal disputes over production limits.
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Oil prices spike above $100 a barrel as shut strait strains fragile ceasefire

Iran keeps grip on Hormuz ● Netanyahu approves Lebanon talks ● US envoys head to Pakistan

With:Najmeh Bozorgmehr,Alice Hancock,Jamie Smyth
FT
Financial Times•APR 10, 2026•Lead Story
The paper leads with the macroeconomic impact of geopolitical instability, prioritising the threshold-crossing of global oil prices while detailing the underlying diplomatic and military strains in the subheadlines.

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Paperboy tracks bylines on the front pages of major US and UK broadsheets. This page shows every front-page story attributed to Verity Ratcliffe in our archive, based on bylines extracted from front-page images by AI. It covers only front-page stories — not the full output of this journalist. Data begins April 2026.