Hints and tips:
...Bankers speculate that the bid could come ahead of an industry event in Miami next week, which would put the spotlight on Anglo’s chief executive Duncan Wanblad....
...Duncan Clark, founder and chair of Beijing-based consultancy BDA, said that previously at the NPC Tencent’s Ma “could play the discreet counterweight to the brash, ambitious Alibaba Ma”....
...Iain Duncan Smith, a former Conservative leader, said this week that the approaches were an “assault on parliamentary democracy”....
...It came after Oliver Dowden, deputy prime minister, publicly blamed China for two malicious cyber campaigns targeting the Electoral Commission and UK parliamentarians....
...Duncan Smith told the Financial Times: “The UK government has been very weak on China....
...Oliver Dowden, the deputy prime minister, said there was a “strong case” for putting China into an “enhanced tier” of countries deemed to pose a risk to Britain under the 2023 National Security Act....
...Duncan Smith said the government’s response was like “an elephant giving birth to a mouse”....
...She serves as deputy first minister in the power-sharing executive at Stormont, after being drafted in by Donaldson despite not having been elected....
...These included Nus Ghani, a minister in the Foreign Office, and the former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith, according to government officials....
...The group of MPs includes the former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith, Alicia Kearns, chair of the foreign affairs select committee, Robert Courts, chair of the Commons defence committee, and former minister...
...Letter in response to this article: Higher pay awards are what UK economy needs / From Duncan Brown, Principal Associate, Institute of Employment Studies, London TW1, UK...
...Look out when the B-team is left in charge: As summer ends, Pilita Clark examines the perils of organisations having long periods where the deputies are running the show. One more thing . . ....
...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....
...And although, you know, one can make jokes about Iain Duncan Smith being impersonated, actually, it’s very serious. And I do think . . ....
...Cameron’s return has infuriated some on the Tory right — former party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith said he was “astonished” — and the new foreign secretary made at least a token effort at placating them:...
...Sir Iain Duncan Smith’s advisers blamed officials for the troubled implementation of universal credit....
...Deputy Scottish first minister Shona Robison said on Tuesday that the government in Edinburgh had handed over more than 19,000 documents....
...Oliver Dowden, the deputy prime minister, said it was crucial to “be able to look the Chinese in the eye and call out unacceptable behaviour directly”....
...Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner called for Sunak to “come clean” about what he knew and when about Zahawi’s tax affairs....
...Tuniyaz’s deputies have been placed under sanctions by both the UK and European parliaments, although he has not....
...“The bill already has strong incentives for compliance, with real sanctions on companies, including fines of up to 10 per cent of global revenue,” said Antony Walker, deputy chief executive....
...Lee Anderson, a former coal miner appointed by Sunak as deputy Tory chair, wants to prop up the red wall seats by fighting the election on a “mix of culture wars and the trans debate”....
...To remedy the concerns surrounding his home secretary, Sunak has installed Robert Jenrick, one of his closest allies, to be her deputy at the Home Office....
...But Truss’s allies pointed out that Graham Stewart, a strong believer in the UK’s net zero emissions targets, had been made energy minister and Rees-Mogg’s deputy....
...Damian Green, May’s de facto deputy prime minister, has a simple answer: “He thinks it’s the right thing to do.”...
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