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...Trevor Eliot Bowes is suitably grave as the philosopher tutor Seneca, and Amy J Payne walks away with her scene-stealing opportunity as nurse Arnalta....
...I felt like those have become, felt like the 2010’s classic Christmas hit. [‘SANTA TELL ME’ BY ARIANA GRANDE PLAYING] Lilah Raptopoulos Can I tell you my least favourite song? It’s not....
...sebastian.payne@ft.com Letter in response to this article: We need change — politics as usual will not wash / From Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle, House of Lords, London SW1, UK...
...By June next year, S&P Global is predicting the US default rate will rise to 4.5 per cent, up from 1.7 per cent at the start of 2023....
...Sebastian Payne is the FT’s Whitehall editor....
...“The party is ungovernable in the House of Commons and so we’re going to have continuing rebellions as we try to change policies and so on,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme....
...Stuart Rose, a Tory peer, former M&S boss and chair of Asda, said she had lost the confidence of business and investors. “She is a busted flush,” he told the Financial Times....
...Other senior figures in her inner circle include Ruth Porter, managing director at consultants FGS Global, who will be Number 10’s deputy chief of staff....
...“I think the game is up and it’s now a question as to how the succession is managed,” he told Channel 4’s Andrew Neil Show....
...“We are not looking here at sticking plaster solutions,” Clarke told Radio 4’s Today programme. “We want a lasting settlement that provides both comfort and clarity for both households and businesses....
...Meanwhile George Osborne, another former Tory chancellor, told Channel 4’s Andrew Neil Show that he had concerns, although he found it refreshing that prime minister Liz Truss and Kwarteng were “conviction...
...Ruth Porter, managing director at consultants FGS Global, will be Number 10’s deputy chief of staff, while Iain Carter, a former director of research for the Conservative party, will be head of strategy....
...The rest of the 1922’s executive committee is now made up of a dozen Tory MPs: Aaron Bell, Miriam Cates, Jo Gideon, Richard Graham, Chris Green, Robert Halfon, Sally-Ann Hart, Andrew Jones, Tom Randall,...
...It added that under Engage, “forces will develop an improvement plan to address the specific cause(s) of concern that has caused them to be placed in the advanced phase of the monitoring process”....
...Letters in response to this article: Cost of living crisis needs imagination not dogma / From Jagjit S Chadha, Director, National Institute of Economic and Social Research, London SW1, UK Only BoE intervention...
...Number 10’s shifting explanation of what Johnson knew about Pincher’s alleged misconduct has fuelled Tory concern over the prime minister’s handling of the affair and revived talk of another attempt to remove...
...Downing Street hopes the first migrants will be sent to Rwanda “in weeks, or a small number of months”, according to Andrew Griffith, Number 10’s director of policy....
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...Boris Johnson’s last hoorah The former UK prime minister’s last day in power had no shortage of dramatic moments, the FT’s Sebastian Payne recounts....
...He was previously in charge of Number 10’s internal partygate inquiry but recused himself after reports of the Christmas gathering came to light....
...F45’s share price fell as much as 77.5 per cent to a record low of 79 cents during morning trading on Wednesday....
...Steve Barclay, Number 10’s new chief of staff, pledged on Sunday that the Johnson government would “step back” and favour “a smaller state”....
...James Greary, head of corporate tax at accountancy firm Randall and Payne, described HMRC’s “scattergun approach” as “probably the wrong approach” to tackling fraud....
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