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...But for local government professionals and policy specialists, the question is whether the post-pandemic settlement really can usher in a new dawn for devolution in England, or whether the latest call to...
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...Left wingers Rebecca Long Bailey, Dawn Butler and Zarah Sultana will be worth watching, as wellas respected MPs Rosie Cooper and Barbara Keely....
...On board, before dawn, exhausted truckers faced a vile insult to fry-ups. The bacon was grey. In a heap of fat and cholesterol, nothing had any taste. Charlie said French ships do a worse version....
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...But while traders prepared for new friction at the border as the new year dawns, there was cross-party agreement that Mr Johnson’s trade deal with the EU — signed on Christmas Eve — was better than no deal...
...But the dawn of the coronavirus-inflicted “virtual parliament” — made up of 50 socially distanced MPs in the chamber and 120 dialling in — has created a major challenge: how to maintain a look of regularity...
...) to suburban wastelands (“rust never sleeps”): Nick Relph and Oliver Payne’s film Driftwood (1999)....
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...As dawn arrived, staff from Conservative central office spilt out of their offices on Matthew Parker Street to a conference centre across the road for a victory rally....
...Boris Johnson proclaimed that a “new dawn” had broken over Britain and, as the winter sun rose over the defunct steelworks at Redcar by the river Tees, it became apparent that the country had profoundly...
...Michael Gove put this down to “absent-mindedness” — perhaps caused by the fact the prime minister was up at the crack of dawn to cradle a large fish in Grimsby....
...Attacking critics of his Brexit deal — notably Nigel Farage’s Brexit party — the prime minister likened them to “candle-sellers at the dawn of the age of the electric lightbulb or the makers of typewriters...
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...Speaking at the union’s annual conference last week, Christine Payne, Equity general secretary, said HMRC’s behaviour was motivated by a “ruthless grab for revenue”....
...A new dawn has broken. This trio of upbeat political slogans symbolised an era of hope — when politicians were elected on waves of optimism about a better future....
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...The new year dawn bought us a fare hike, averaging 3.4%, that stung commuters, and raised those questions once again of how do you make Britain's railways better, fairer, and more accessible?...
...Easy Answers’ Instant Insight: The House of Lords needs radical reform to reflect modern Britain The UK’s upper chamber should not be abolished, but it needs to be smaller and younger, writes Sebastian Payne...
...Comment from Sam on Kiran Stacey’s article, Reality dawns on India’s solar ambitions “You may have very limited understanding of project costs and when you ask leading questions to prepare your story you...
...Ahuja: Medieval diseases are making a grim comeback The return of plague and cholera reveals a fragile stand—off between humans and bacteria EM Squared: Nigerian bond deal unlikely to herald bright new dawn...
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