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...Referring to the electoral contest that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is expected to call in the second half of this year, Macpherson said in an interview with Radio 4’s Week in Westminster on Saturday: “It...
...“It’s been a fucking difficult week,” admitted one ally of Sunak, reflecting on Number 10’s maladroit handling of a dispute over a leading Tory donor, Frank Hester....
...Sunak said in a recent article in the Times that he “understand[s] people’s anger when that dream [of home ownership] feels too far away for too many, especially the younger generation”....
...Business and consumer confidence also expanded with the closely watched S&P PMI survey indicating private sector activity grew at the fastest pace in eight months in January....
...That euphoria has yet to be duplicated, though the IPOs in 2020 saw an average of 50 per cent first-day returns relative to the S&P 500....
...S&P rates EDF as BBB compared with AA for French government bonds....
...Louise Haigh, shadow transport secretary, insisted the cancellation of HS2’s northern leg was “the exact opposite of the levelling up we were promised” and a sign of “chaos” in Sunak’s government....
...HS2’s burn rate means it is scheduled to consume more expenditure per year than the Highways Agency’s renewals programme for the national road network or Network Rail’s capital programme on an annualised...
...HS2’s price tag has more than doubled from the original budget of £33bn a decade ago when the line was originally envisaged to run from London to Birmingham before splitting into two sections to Manchester...
...The debate over HS2’s northern leg had become about “Britain’s ability to do the tough stuff successfully”, he said, and its “credibility as a place to invest”. “That’s what’s now at stake,” he added....
...Chief executives of companies on the US S&P 500 index are paid far more than their UK counterparts, receiving a median of $14.1mn in 2022, according to an annual study published this month by labour union...
...“In the last 10 years there’s been a growing and I think regrettable trend for lawyers to actively parade their politics and identify more with their clients,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme....
...I/O, standing for “input/output”, is his first set of new songs since 2002’s Up. Even by his standards, it’s a lavish undertaking....
...The AI meeting is a British initiative, taking place alongside the G7’s “Hiroshima AI framework”, which has been set up to co-ordinate global regulation of the new sector....
...A new thought struck him: “Oh s**t, we’ve got no plan. We haven’t thought about it. I didn’t think it would happen. Holy crap, what will we do?”...
Ardagh’s investment in Belfast factory seen as vote of confidence in region’s protocol
...“We are well into the adverse effects in many countries, and they are only growing,” Parker added....
...As for levelling up, NG200’s “National Treasures” will send a dozen core paintings travelling. Caravaggio’s “The Supper at Emmaus” (1601) goes to Belfast, shown with Cornelia Parker’s films....
...And while Sex and the City’s other three players — Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davies — have all performed on the London stage in the past, Sarah Jessica Parker is about to make her West End...
...Now whether it’s called an industrial strategy with a capital I, capital S, I’m less bothered about that, but I think there should be one....
...“I would say they probably represent the best opportunity to ramp up by inventory with a deal with a private,” said Raoul LeBlanc, an analyst at S&P Global....
...Labour’s announcements are important of course, given that it is highly likely to form the next government (here’s George Parker and Rachel Millard on one of them)....
...in October 2021 and as chancellor in July 2022, but on neither occasion did the former minister declare he was subject to a tax probe by HM Revenue & Customs, according to Sir Laurie Magnus, Number 10’s...
...George Osborne, former Tory chancellor, told Channel 4’s The Andrew Neil Show on Sunday that Johnson was “interested in becoming PM again” and would use any instrument to hit Sunak “over the head”....
...where Parker worked and lived from upcoming artists and jazz veterans....
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