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...Reading The Iliad in the present, one wonders if Helen was the Meghan Markle to Homer’s Jeremy Clarkson....
...Top stories today New in at LetterOne | Former Conservative party chair Brandon Lewis has taken a job advising an investment company set up and still partly owned by two sanctioned Russian oligarchs....
...MAY Art is Magic by Jeremy Deller (Cheerio) Blending pop music, film, politics and history, the British artist Jeremy Deller examines the wide-ranging influences on his own work....
...Saturday China, new year’s eve markets closed UK, former Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks at the Stop the War Coalition Trade Union Conference in London Sunday China, celebrations mark the start...
...Brandon Lewis, another key Truss backer, becomes justice secretary and lord chancellor, while Simon Clarke was handed the cabinet role of levelling-up secretary....
...That’s thanks to a combination of rule changes driven through by Starmer and by his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn....
...“This is the DUP’s Jeremy Corbyn moment and we all know how that ends,” he said, referring to the former UK Labour party leader who in 2019 oversaw its worst election defeat in decades....
...The Social Purpose of Higher Education in the 21st century by Jonathan Grant, Pearson Publishing, £21.99, 256 pages...
...Susan Pearson, a retired food processing worker, explains: “We need control. We didn’t have it under [Tony] Blair, and [Jeremy] Corbyn wanted open borders. I have no idea what that new one thinks.”...
...Jeremy Hosking, a prominent City of London asset manager, is one donor dismayed by Mrs May’s leadership....
...Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn promised on Thursday to “get Brexit sorted” within six months of winning the general election, deliberately apeing Boris Johnson’s pledge to “get Brexit done”....
...Brandon Lewis, security minister, had earlier said on Radio 4’s Today programme that the conditions placed on Khan after his release would be one of the points examined in the police investigation....
...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...
...Jeremy Corbyn has been coming under pressure from many Labour MPs and activists to give a cast-iron pledge that there must be a confirmatory vote on Brexit — no matter what deal a UK government signs....
...Brandon Lewis, chair of the Tory party, said Labour had “ripped up their promise” to respect the referendum result....
...And both the UK prime minister and opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn have vowed to get Brexit “done”/“sorted” swiftly, Johnson by January and Corbyn within six months....
...“Brandon [Lewis, party chairman] wants a much longer campaign with regional hustings, that will favour long-shot candidates,” said one ministerial aide....
...The US charges have provoked a strong political reaction in the UK where Jeremy Corbyn, Labour leader, has called for the UK government to block Assange’s extradition....
...Jeremy Hunt, foreign secretary, said this week: “Personally I think a customs union is a bad policy.”...
...Mr Hammond floated the idea, but Brandon Lewis, Tory chairman, gave a bleak assessment of the party’s finances and electoral prospects....
...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....
...Jeremy Corbyn has not given such a commitment....
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