PRESS DIGEST- Financial Times - March 16

March 16 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in the Financial Times. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

Headlines

- UK to expand nuclear stockpile in post-Brexit security review https://on.ft.com/3vqQJoB

- Glencore completes changing of the guard https://on.ft.com/3cyyIMs

- Priti Patel insists new laws will protect women https://on.ft.com/3tpeATI

Overview

- Downing Street is to raise the number of Trident nuclear warheads the UK can stockpile by more than 40% in its integrated review of defence, security and foreign policy to be published on Tuesday.

- Glencore Plc's GLEN.L top coal trader is to depart, completing a change of the old guard at the top of world's most powerful commodity trader.

- Priti Patel insisted on Monday that the UK government was committed to preventing violence against women as she tried to dispel concerns that proposed legislation will fail to tackle the issue adequately.

(Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)

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