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...The OBR’s wonderful charts (below) show that Philip Hammond, the chancellor, has decided to give it all away....
...The mantle of leadership of the free world has, it seems, passed from German chancellor Angela Merkel to the French president....
...Best of the rest The meaning of Corbynism — George Eaton and others in The New Statesman Today’s eerie echoes of the Civil War — Manisha Sinha in the New York Review of Books Why are Democrats helping...
...The FT reports that the SPD and CDU are preparing to abandon Germany’s 2020 target for carbon emission cuts, in a blow for chancellor Angela Merkel....
...Besides, as Stephen Bush and George Eaton very aptly describe, the young are not more likely than the old to support the “Marxist” policies of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour....
...Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood, a crossbench peer and a former judge, said during the debate: “A golden thread running through our system is that it is for the accuser to establish a case against the...
...BlackRock has hired Rupert Harrison, a former chief of staff to George Osborne, the UK chancellor....
...Meanwhile George Osborne, the chancellor, expects the Tories and Lib Dems to join forces on Tuesday to reverse another Lords defeat: this time on his cherished “shares for rights” plan....
...A letter from the LGA to George Osborne, chancellor, criticising the plans, which would raise £900m of additional contributions by 2014-15, was cosigned by Baroness Eaton, the Conservative chairwoman of...
...The view is supported by Lady Margaret Eaton, Conservative chairman of the Local Government Association....
...Lady Eaton, the LGA’s chair, said without such changes councils’ “scope to make further savings without cutting services is limited”....
...Margaret Eaton, who chairs the Local Government Association, said the first step forward in reclaiming investments would be “a relief to taxpayers”....
...But Margaret Eaton, chairman of the Local Government Association, said: “There must be a consistent and fair approach to compensation....
...The squeeze comes in the week that Alistair Darling, chancellor, announced a tightening of public spending after 2010, when real-term increases across the board would be cut to 1.2 per cent....
...For further information about Goldman Sachs contact: Simon Eaton: tel 00 44 207 774 4102 email: simon.eaton@gs.com ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………....
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