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...Cabinet ministers resigned (5):Sajid Javid — health secretaryRishi Sunak — chancellor of the exchequerSimon Hart — Wales secretary Brandon Lewis — Northern Ireland secretaryMichelle Donelan — education minister...
...The group shifted en masse to Team Truss, including ERG chair Mark Francois and its formidable former leader Steve Baker. Their backing bought momentum, but also a problem....
...Duncan Baker PPS in the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities“I must remain true to my values and principles. I have felt for a considerable while that the situation cannot go on.”...
...secretary — Julian Smith replaces Karen Bradley Scottish secretary — Alister Jack replaces David Mundell Welsh secretary — Alun Cairns (no change) Conservative party chairman — James Cleverly replaces Brandon...
...Brandon Lewis, Tory party chairman, said in a statement: “Successive rounds of voting [by MPs] will take place until a final choice of candidates to put to a vote of all party members is determined....
...Mr Baker also gave Mrs May some breathing space by withdrawing his amendments to emergency Northern Ireland legislation, citing procedural problems....
...New leadership comes from two 40-somethings: Brandon Lewis, a confident former lawyer, and James Cleverly, a pugnacious ex-soldier....
...In all likelihood, Mrs May will opt for Brandon Lewis, the loyal immigration minister who has held his brief ably and would do a fine job....
...If I weren’t doing what I do, I would be a baker. I love to make things by hand and baking combines accuracy with the opportunity to be creative....
...Norman Baker, transport minister, said there had been no cut in central funding for subsidised bus routes and that the concessionary travel scheme was protected “in full.”...
...But in a paper published by the University of Illinois last year, Brandon Julio and Dave Ikenberry note the reappearance of dividends dates from the third quarter of 2001 - long before the dividend tax cut...
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