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...Burn after Reid-ing One of the more enduring Whitehall reorganisations was Tony Blair and John Reid’s reduction in the size of the Home Office in March 2007....
...But Draper was soon caught up in a fresh row following media reports that he had received emails from Damian McBride, spin-doctor to then prime minister Gordon Brown, drawing up a plot to smear Conservative...
...The 41-year-old, who is seen by some as a future Labour leader, said he had received guidance from central architects of health policy in Tony Blair’s government, including former health secretary Alan Milburn...
...The group now generates more than half its revenues in the US, said chair and co-founder Sir Alan Parker, who sold part of his stake in 2021 to BDT Capital Partners, a US fund run by Warren Buffett’s banker...
...These sometimes led to ministerial sackings as in the case of former de facto deputy prime minister Damian Green and former defence secretary Liam Fox....
...Blair received a Treasury briefing in 1999 outlining a list of failures relating to the Horizon system....
...Because under Alan Milburn, who was secretary of state for health in the late period of the Blair administration, there was a real ramping up of the internal market and of that whole ethos of competition...
...Sainsbury was a big donor to Labour when it was last in power and served as a minister in Tony Blair’s government between 1998 and 2006....
...Brunswick chair and co-founder Sir Alan Parker also drew attention to Timms’s supremely connected “inner crew”: Goldman Sachs chief operating officer John Waldron; Centerview Partners founder Blair Effron...
...In tributes on Thursday morning, Lord Alan Sugar said Parkinson’s death was “the end of an era”, while comedian Eddie Izzard called him the “king of the intelligent interview”....
...The currency trader’s profile grew when he took control of Tottenham, buying shares from British businessman Lord Alan Sugar....
...That is what Alan Milburn did under Blair — and patient outcomes improved. Many of the NHS’s problems won’t be resolved by more committees, or a new charging system....
...Outside work, I am enjoying Damian Barr’s Maggie & Me....
...Brexit in numbers This week’s chart is a real fascinator that comes courtesy of Alan Wager at the Tony Blair institute....
...Data visualisation by Keith Fray and Alan Smith...
...Patricia Hewitt, a Tony Blair era moderniser and former health secretary, will advise him on NHS efficiency, while Sir Michael Barber, who advised Blair on education, will offer advice on schools....
...asked Alan Johnson, the incoming minister. The plan was dropped. But veterans of previous Whitehall overhauls believe Sunak will face other problems....
...In the firm’s perhaps most consequential moment, in 2009 it hired three Merrill Lynch healthcare dealmakers: Alan Hartman, Mark Robinson and Richard Girling....
...“We have done 18 deals in the last four years without private equity money,” said Alan Whitman, chief executive of Baker Tilly....
...Damian Williams, the US attorney for the southern district, you know, did a video statement. They don’t do that for every sort of, you know. Ethan WuHe was very triumphalist about this....
...Tony Blair basically went, we accept Thatcherism but we will have a more generous state....
...Euan Blair, son of the former prime minister Tony Blair and chief executive of the apprenticeship company Multiverse, becomes a MBE for his services to education....
...Damian Williams, US attorney for the Southern District of New York, described the alleged crimes as “one of the biggest financial frauds in American history”....
...I spoke to Damian Green, chair of the One Nation group, who said that that would be enormously damaging. Do you think that Rishi Sunak is going to put that in the manifesto ahead of the next election?...
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