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...The attendees included former British prime ministers Tony Blair and John Major as well as media tycoons Rupert Murdoch and Michael Bloomberg....
...Boutique investment bank William Blair has hired Dominic Emery as a managing director in London. He joins from Raymond James....
...John Grindrod, meanwhile, has alighted on the period where Hatherley started with his critique of Blair-era architecture A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain (2010)....
...In the late 1990s, this former industrial zone — once the site of Europe’s largest gasworks — was decontaminated and redeveloped by Tony Blair’s Labour government, which built the Dome and attempted to turn...
...G4S/GardaWorld: security groups in a punch-up The protagonists in an increasingly bitter hostile takeover fight, Stephan Crétier and Ashley Almanza, could hardly be more different....
...Mr Rathi also served as private secretary to prime ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown between 2005 and 2008....
...Twenty years earlier, at the time of Labour’s landslide, which installed Tony Blair as prime minister, it stood at 27,149....
...The Iraq war, house prices, how you could never get a builder, how good things would be once Tony Blair was gone and that what we really needed was a coalition government....
...A majority of independent shareholders have twice in the past year tried to replace chairman Keith Hellawell, a former West Yorkshire chief constable best known for his role as “drugs tsar” in Tony Blair...
...Independent shareholders have twice tried to oust Keith Hellawell, the chairman, who is best known for his former role as “drugs tsar” in Tony Blair’s government....
...The retailers Philip Green, of Top Shop and BHS, and Mike Ashley, of Sports Direct, were called before the committee in high-profile inquiries during the last parliament....
...(On the other hand, public-school educated politicians, such as Tony Blair and George Osborne, have been accused of feigning so-called “estuary accents” — the lilt of those living in the south-east of England...
...Lady Morgan, who had been a senior aide in Tony Blair’s Labour government, accused Mr Gove’s team of making a “determined effort” to appoint a Conservative to chair the watchdog....
...Rebalancing Britain was at the core of the speech, tipping the emphasis — as Tony Blair would say — from the few to the many. And balance ran through the speech....
...Tony Blair, who as premier gave the academy his blessing in 2005, was an incongruous presence....
...“The scarcity value of boutiques has diminished as competition has intensified with the expansion of other top-tier franchises like Centerview and Perella Weinberg, and soon PJT Partners,” says Ashley Serrao...
...Outsourcing gathered pace under Tony Blair’s Labour government in the late 1990s....
...Mr Sutherland, lacking the reformist commitment of a Tony Blair, has flounced....
...Sports Indirect Mike Ashley is keeping the market guessing....
...The pressure on his successor – the more technocratic Ashley Almanza – remains intense....
...“The balance sheet plays less of a role in deals, which means advice and human capital have become a more wanted quantity,” says Ashley Serrao, a banking analyst at Credit Suisse....
...The Albion Band has passed proprietorship down a generation: Ashley Hutchings’s third great folk-rock band is now in the hands of his son, Blair Dunlop....
...However, in the longer term, England would have a significant regime change, as we would no longer be ruled by Browns, Blairs, Homes/Humes, Camerons or Macmillans, but rather just Majors, Thatchers, and...
...Tony Blair, unlike his two immediate predecessors, was not interested in history let alone heritage....
...Mr Blair may have been late on that occasion but in general he set a fine standard for others to follow....
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