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...The surplus of £16.7bn comes as chancellor Jeremy Hunt assesses whether tax cuts are feasible in his March 6 Budget....
...Harold Wilson’s devaluation of sterling in 1967 haunted Labour until Tony Blair became leader, while it took the global financial crisis to repair the damage the Conservative party suffered from the UK’s...
...Forward Roger Hunt thought the World Cup was “too big”; Alf Ramsey, the manager, felt “a little flat”. That night he lay awake, “wondering if it was really true and if we had really done it”....
...In Data Drill, Derek returns to hydrocarbons and gives a rundown of the US’s biggest private drillers — a shopping list, perhaps, for Big Oil on the hunt for inventory....
...What Keir Starmer is trying to do with his announcements on crime in particular is to recreate the successful mix that both Harold Wilson and Tony Blair managed to set out....
...He knew in advance when he would unmask himself, saving the FBI the trouble of trying to hunt him down....
...Last Friday, Lex was at the front of the peloton of commentators noting the end of Trussonomics as Jeremy Hunt replaced Kwarteng....
...Did what Jeremy Hunt was describing there sound like an industrial strategy to you? Greg ClarkWell, they were the components of one....
...First staged in 1997, Closer has become a modern classic, examining a certain sort of toxic masculinity and possessiveness and sharing traits with Harold Pinter’s Betrayal as it feels its way through the...
...Harold Wilson did it; David Cameron famously bought off the peg when he didn’t need to....
...Phloxes have had a superb year in this cool summer, but we all need to hunt around for the ever-better varieties on the market. They flower longer and resist mildew....
...“For me, it’s the hunt for the unknown, unique thing that’s the fun part.”...
...The loving husband and father of three small boys was sentenced to 42 years in jail: “A savage sentence,” noted the prime minister, Harold Macmillan, in his diary....
...Some Conservatives are bracing themselves for a bloody reshuffle, similar to Harold Macmillan’s “Night of the Long Knives”, when seven ministers were dismissed in one night in 1962 in an attempt to rejuvenate...
...Mr Javid’s promotion came on a day of political carnage for many his former colleagues in Mrs May’s cabinet, as Mr Johnson made Harold Macmillan’s “Night of the Long Knives” reshuffle in 1962 seem modest...
...In Baker’s brilliant The Antipodes (given its UK premiere at the National Theatre), the hunt for plot turns into a quest....
...Among those to quit were foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt, who refused to take a demotion to defence secretary, and deputy prime minister David Lidington....
...The “Royal Hunt and Storm” from Les Troyens was painted across an epic canvas with atmospheric offstage effects. The performance of Harold in Italy was even more eye-opening....
...Harold Wilson learnt to have a sense of humour. Tony Blair and David Cameron were quick-witted....
...Margaret Beckett 2006-2007 Labour Margaret Beckett is the last surviving member of Harold Wilson’s government in the House of Commons....
...Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has hosted Mrs May and I have met with UK foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt to discuss various aspects of the Brexit agreement....
...Harold Wilson formally suspended collective cabinet responsibility in 1975 to let ministers campaign for different sides of the referendum on continued membership of the European Economic Community....
...be rebranded as the ministry of housing, communities and local government — a name evoking memories of the energetic housing ministry set up after the second world war under people such as Nye Bevan and Harold...
...Harold Wilson, whose centenary falls this year — as does the 50th anniversary of his biggest general election victory — was a remarkable leader of the UK’s Labour party and a remarkably under-appreciated...
...Sir, Interesting that Tristram Hunt wants the Labour party to return to the Utopian times of Harold Wilson (“What the Labour party can learn from Wilson”, April 4)....
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