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...Tony Blair complained of the impossibility of public sector reform. Sir Iain Duncan Smith’s advisers blamed officials for the troubled implementation of universal credit....
...One GP spent years convincing his local hospital to let him have a clinic inside A&E, which was a huge success....
...for Blair....
...But once you've decided... ...during the Blair era, but now......
...I think she said we weren’t pure capital-E establishment, more of what you called a “flying buttress” to it....
...I mean, again, thinking about those four E’s, there isn’t a formal industry strategy at the moment....
...The regulator and the politicians are, if not on the same page, apparently reading a similar (e) book....
...Gordon Brown and Tony Blair unleashed Scottish devolution in the hope of stalling the momentum towards independence....
...Afterwards a splenetic Brown reportedly told Blair that he had “stolen my fucking budget”....
...Think Euan Blair, progeny of Tony, former UK prime minister, whose venture Multiverse was valued at $1.7bn last month....
...Bill Clinton reportedly gave one to Al Gore, John Prescott gave one to Tony Blair and the Queen put one on the piano at Balmoral. It even appeared in The Sopranos....
...There’s the “keep”, i.e. the pile of legislation that will be kept and there’s no sunset on it. The decision to keep that legislation could be made in Whitehall or in the devolves....
...In real life Alistair Campbell, Labour’s spin doctor under Tony Blair, often mocked Peston. Campbell is open about his struggles with alcoholism....
...Given that the controversy over PPE Medpro is about some companies getting high-priority access to bid for contracts, e.g through political or other connections, Lady Mone of Mayfair seems like a particularly...
...And neither Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey nor ex-PM Tony Blair could find a fireplace from which to broadcast their fireside chats....
...In July Gavin Williamson, the Conservative education secretary, symbolically abandoned Tony Blair’s aim for half of 18-year-olds to go to university....
...(FT) California fire victims’ decision Unlike many big bankruptcies, that of California utility company PG&E will not be decided by investors, bankers and lawyers — about 80,000 victims of fires in 2017...
...As a result, queues at A&E are lengthening....
...So I gave up, and since Tony Blair’s day have simply turned the bathroom radio up a bit in the hope of hearing the gist of the pieces on Today through the shower....
...FT subscribers can click here to receive FirstFT every day by e-mail....
...Gordon Bonnyman Frant, E Sussex, UK...
...Emergency doctors fear that dropping the target could increase crowding and reduce resources for A&E....
...And 2015’s winner, Laurence Blair, has also been signed up by The Bodley Head to write his first book, which expands on his essay, “Dreams of the Sea”, and will be published in 2020....
...Photographs feature the chief meeting former US presidents George W Bush and Barack Obama, and UK prime ministers Tony Blair and David Cameron....
...and find out more about their authors. 2016 winner: ‘Cash and curry’ Chris Newens on how demonetisation and a TV chef inspired an unlikely Indian pilgrimage 2015 winner: ‘Dreams of the sea’ Laurence Blair...
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