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...Keir Starmer has yet to show the strategic clarity needed to seal the deal with voters. This remains the new premier’s main hope. It leads to the second wise saw....
...The writer is a political strategist and former adviser to Tony Blair and Julia Gillard Labour leader Keir Starmer has that essential yet underrated political quality — luck....
...The first is to seal his control of the party. The second is to show the public that his values and priorities are theirs rather than those of his activists....
...The day Tony Blair stepped down as UK prime minister in 2007, he arrived in his constituency by train and reportedly headed instinctively towards a waiting BMW, before being told he would have to squeeze...
...Blair Effron, co-founder of Centerview Partners, was more cautious....
...And today, once again, Whistler’s masterpiece will seal the restaurant’s fate, according to gallery insiders....
...Power dining Where to break bread and seal deals, from FT Globetrotter, our new insider city guides for business travellers London The best power dining locations in Mayfair Paris Simon Kuper on where...
...Only last November, President Emmanuel Macron and Chancellor Angela Merkel were here to put the seal on an attempted love-in. People project whatever they want on to him....
...William McRaven, the head of US special operations when Navy Seals killed Osama bin Laden, wrote a public letter asking Mr Trump to revoke his security clearance....
...But, according to Sophie Pedder, his mix of market economics and social protection carries more echoes of Tony Blair’s Third Way politics....
...“We don’t mind if they pick up the tab,” joked a senior eurozone diplomat involved in talks, noting the concessions that Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, made to seal a deal during the UK’s...
...Blair Wood, EMBA, London Business School, 2018. Senior producer, Input Media, UK What advice would you give to someone starting an EMBA?...
...The writer is chair of Brexit Exchange and former chief of staff to Tony Blair Letter in response to this article: Where is Prince Albert — and will Merkel go mad? / From Dr Matthias Morys...
...The aim was not just to shore up the country’s precarious finances and ease a severe dollar shortage throttling the economy, but also to secure the IMF’s seal of approval on a programme of reforms to restore...
...“This is exactly what Blair and Brown did,” he said....
...The majority opinion in the Labour elite remains determinedly Remain — as seen in Tony Blair’s speech on Friday....
...(FT) Please reconsider Donald Trump is trying to persuade Robert Harward, the ex-navy Seal chosen to succeed Michael Flynn as national security adviser, to take the job....
...Labour began losing these people long ago but Mr Corbyn can seal the estrangement....
...The former Citi supremo, who brokered talks between Ivan Glasenberg and Mick Davis two years ago to seal a highly complex, $41bn merger between Glencore and Xstrata, has been unusually quiet for the past...
...Add the inequities of the electoral system, and this paltry vote share should be enough to give Mr Miliband the seals of office. But it leaves little margin for error, as he is learning the hard way....
...The Empire of Necessity reconstructs the slaves’ journey from west Africa to Montevideo, across the Argentine pampas and over the Andes up until the moment of their fateful encounter with the American seal...
...But Blair McDougall, campaign director of Better Together dismisses claims that it is outgunned on street corners and doorsteps....
...Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, has also been involved with Glencore when last year he brokered a deal with Qatar’s prime minister to seal the takeover of rival group Xstrata....
...Tony Blair, the former UK prime minister whose shake-up of the Labour party has served as a model for Mr Renzi, disagreed....
...“Cameron wants to put the whole episode into a box and seal it,” said one member of the prime minister’s team....
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