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...I have full confidence in Angela Rayner and that she hasn’t broken the rules.”...
...I think we’ll see relatively little of Angela Rayner. That would be my guess. Lucy FisherThat’s interesting. Robert, do you think Angela Rayner is gonna stand for that?...
...Follow Lucy on X: @LOS_Fisher, Robert @robertshrimsley, George @GeorgeWParker, Gill @gillplimmer1, Feargal @Feargal_Sharkey, Want more?...
...And it’s not very long ago, I remember back in 2021 when the Americans, with Danish help, were spying on the German chancellor Angela Merkel. So let’s put this in context....
...Keir Starmer: The Biography by Tom Baldwin William Collins £25, 448 pages Robert Shrimsley is the FT’s UK chief political commentator...
...Robert Shrimsley Yeah....
...Lucy Fisher I’m gonna hold Angela Rayner, the Labour deputy leader....
...Sir Robert Chote criticised Laura Trott, chief secretary to the Treasury, for saying in November that “taxes for the average worker have gone down by £1,000”....
...The rebuke by Sir Robert Chote, chair of the UK Statistics Authority, came in a letter to Labour MP Dame Angela Eagle in response to her concerns about the claims....
...He also cited Helmut Kohl, the late German chancellor who served from 1982 to 1998 when he meant Angela Merkel, the more recent former chancellor....
...Messages recovered by Robert Shrimsley...
...Angela Merkel’s former chief economic adviser has acknowledged that her policies left Germany overly dependent on Russian gas, and in hindsight the country should have done much more to diversify its energy...
...At two separate fundraisers in New York on Wednesday, Biden referred to the late German chancellor Helmut Kohl when referring to former German chancellor Angela Merkel....
...Letter in response to this article: Rural politicians place too much value on Nimby vote / From Robert Persey, Honiton, Devon, UK...
...Robert, you are? @RobertShrimsley. Thank you so much....
...The bar for “my best” is clearly high: poet Amanda Gorman, model Naomi Campbell, actors Angela Bassett and Idris Elba, singer Tiwa Savage and King Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, king of the Ashanti in Ghana, were...
...Robert Shrimsley I do think the other point about Angela Rayner is that she’s also had to reach a bit of an accommodation with Keir Starmer....
...Special counsel Robert Hur, a Republican who oversaw the investigation into the president’s handling of classified materials found at his private residences and offices, concluded that Biden, 81, had “wilfully...
...The group also includes photographer duo Angela Fisher and Carol Beckwith, and Shela habitué Babu British, a linen-swathed local celebrity....
...Angela Rayner, deputy leader of the UK Labour party, writing in the FT, promised a new relationship with business that would move the country away from its low-productivity, low-security and low-wage doom...
...Angela Merkel, then chancellor, even evoked a national symbol of thrift and prudence, the Swabian housewife, to justify the new fiscal orthodoxy....
...Few administrations anywhere in the west have dated worse than Angela Merkel’s complacent one....
...As he entered the Berlaymont building, he may have remembered the bitter battle he lost there to Angela Merkel and Jean-Claude Juncker eight years ago as president of the European Council....
...Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner said the government’s failure to update the rules on ministerial interests or publish the register in almost a year had left a “transparency black hole”, adding: “[It]...
...But the book I finished the year with, and which has lingered for days in my mind, was Act Of Oblivion by Robert Harris, one of my favourite authors (here’s the FT review)....
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