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...“You show me yours, I’ll show you mine,” she declared on Thursday....
...Laura Battle is the FT’s deputy books editor Find out about our latest stories first — follow @ftweekend on Twitter...
...Georgina Wright, deputy director for international studies at the Institut Montaigne in Paris, warned that the bloc is not prepared to breach its own red lines for UK co-operation elsewhere....
...Very ripe, intense fruit presumably accounts for the fact that, if served this blind, I would guess a higher dosage than 3g/l....
...“I care more about tackling climate change than winning my seat,” he said. “The nature and the severity of the threat are existential.” He said drastic action was vital....
...Lee Anderson, the Conservative deputy chair who is often accused of inflammatory rhetoric, said the Labour ad was “gutter politics”....
...“I stopped sending junior staff to meetings because I was not prepared to expose them to it.” A third official said they knew civil servants who declined positions in Raab’s private office....
...“There is a much greater intensity, dare I say brutality, to life as a politician than in years gone by . . . It takes its toll on you and on those around you,” she said....
...Raab, who also serves as justice secretary, has previously insisted that the allegations of bullying made against him are wrong, saying he is “always mindful of the way I behave”....
...“I was not involved in making a loan or arranging a guarantee, and I did not arrange any financing,” Sharp said....
...“I am confident I acted properly throughout,” said Zahawi on Monday. But Sir Keir Starmer, Labour leader, said: “I think it’s obvious that Zahawi can’t stay as Tory party chair.”...
...By coincidence I was born a mile away. She orders a cup of Earl Grey tea with a dash of lemon. Not everyone is a fan of this bergamot-flavoured beverage but she adores it....
...Additional reporting by Robert Wright in London...
...There’s Poundbury in Dorset (“I don’t think you need me to tell you about that one!”)...
...Raab had most recently served as justice secretary and deputy prime minister under Johnson....
...As Robert Wright has written in more detail, England’s Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities face a series of new legal threats and challenges....
...I’ll see you a week on Monday!...
...Ask yourself: is this a problem I can budget my way out of, or am I going to need some expert help?...
...I’ve always used Mosquitan (£8, jojomamanbebe.com) which fill the air with an intense lemon for days, and this year I’m adding The Natural Patch Co to the kit, because they have faces and animals on and...
...But, she added, it was “encouraging” that the inspectorate had “acknowledged progress, especially in recording crime, which I welcome”....
...“I expect the mayor of London and the new commissioner to reverse these deficiencies as a matter of urgency,” she noted....
...Bas Javid, the Met’s deputy assistant commissioner for professional standards, said he was “angry and disappointed” by the report’s findings....
...“But I want to reassure the House that I and the whole government are focused 100 per cent on dealing with the people’s priorities.”...
...“I don’t want anything that inhibits schools from excluding unruly pupils,” a note on one paper in Blair’s handwriting said....
...“I can’t believe he has proposed a hemispherical House of Commons,” Powell wrote. “Are you sure you want to go ahead with this project?”...
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