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...After Boris Johnson’s victory in the 2019 election, Conservative outriders had all sorts of outlandish answers to this question....
...Johnson’s core promises were to spend more on policing, hospitals and schools and on a regional policy to foster growth in the north....
...Since the last gathering of new partners, EY has attracted regulatory scrutiny over its work as auditor of German payments company Wirecard and FTSE 100 hospital group NMC Health, both of which collapsed...
...Or is the Conservative party’s regional penalty gonna come back with a vengeance?...
...Chuck Schumer, the Democratic Senate majority leader, and Mike Johnson, the Republican Speaker of the House, jointly announced the agreement....
...For Betsy Atkins, who has served on boards including Wynn Resorts, Gopuff and SL Green, SVB’s collapse is a “wake-up call . . . that we have to do deeper focus on enterprise risk management.”...
...FT reader Clara Westbrook says: “My father, after a long stay in hospital, required care at home for which he received no funding due to his asset level....
...So obviously levelling up is supposed to be their policy designed to close regional economic divides....
...UK, the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, a key networking event in the London calendar, opens in the gardens of the Royal Hospital Chelsea....
...Prime Minister Boris Johnson regards improving bus services as an important part of his efforts to “level up” so-called left behind areas by tackling regional inequalities....
...I mean, you can tell that he spends time looking under the bonnet of problems and he gets officials in and he actually really enjoys getting to grips with thorny issues like the boats or hospital emergency...
...Nerseth said the UK wanted to help the company establish a factory but there was little support from central government because most initiatives are regional....
...Britain is not the only place with big regional differences in economic performance. The IMF has found that regional disparities in the average advanced economy have risen since the late 1980s....
...It’s therefore no surprise that so many are off sick, leading to the series of incidents that are now being reported in regional hospitals....
...But while there is a real need to reduce regional disparities, this will look too much like pork barrel politics if it is overly focused on the red wall....
...For the 56-year-old who relies on sickness benefits, and many others in Northern Ireland, the cost of living crisis is the top concern ahead of potentially historic May 5 elections for the regional assembly...
...Big regional problems and the failure to deal with these, following the financial crisis we had in 2007-09, would turn out to be quite devastating for political stability....
...Covid hospital admissions are flat or falling in all UK nations and regions, with London, Wales and Northern Ireland all down at least 20 per cent from the recent peak, according to the latest regional official...
...With her daughter Betsy they formed a new family before later having a daughter of their own together, Alice....
...Hans Kluge, the WHO’s regional director for Europe, said that “because of the unprecedented scale of transmission” Europe was now seeing rising rates of hospitalisation....
...return to hospitals....
...The logic was this would limit transmission in hospitals and protect front-line workers....
...“The house is under fire” and hospital admissions are rising rapidly, David Makhura, Gauteng’s regional premier, said on Monday. “It’s a pretty gloomy picture....
...He said that 37 per cent of those admitted to hospital in the area are aged under 45....
...Treatments: The FT’s video team has had a look inside UK hospitals to assess the strain Covid-19 has been placing on the health system....
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