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...Richard Donnell, research director at property website Zoopla, said the expense of 10 or 20-year finance discouraged borrowers from breaking the habit of picking cheap short-term deals and hoping rates would...
...“As far as I can see, it’s changing departmental boundaries but there’s no growth strategy,” Lord Gus O’Donnell, former cabinet secretary, told the Financial Times. “It’s very disruptive....
...Scholar joins the Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, a select group that includes former cabinet secretaries Lord Richard Wilson and Lord Gus O’Donnell — just months after he was fired from the...
...David Sylvester talked of his “genius for bringing out the worst in people”....
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...Sir Gus O’Donnell, former head of the civil service, said it was vital that officials were able to offer frank advice in private without fear of any kind of retribution....
...Gus O’Donnell, another former cabinet secretary, said: “It’s always going to be difficult in Number 10” as Mr Johnson seeks to make trade-offs between “black and white” medical advice and wider considerations...
...Brett O’Donnell, a US Republican debate guru who prepared George W Bush and Mitt Romney for presidential debates, took charge....
...Savills is predicting 1 per cent growth; Strutt & Parker says 4 per cent. Camilla Dell of buying agents Black Brick thinks these forecasts are too conservative....
...The leak from the NSC, a body set up by David Cameron, former prime minister, was described as a “complete outrage” by the ex-cabinet secretary Gus O’Donnell, who said the breach was “incredibly serious”...
...But as Gus O’Donnell, former head of the civil service, put it, Sir Graham was “pointing a revolver at the prime minister’s head”....
...Separately, Labour has promised to nationalise public services including water, rail and the post, but Mr Donnell has recently been striking a more emollient tone to reassure business leaders....
...Mr Donnell offered a glimmer of hope in urging a different mindset on landlord investors....
...“I think that’s completely crazy,” Lord O’Donnell told Peston On Sunday. “The truth is civil servants operate by the civil service code. The values are honesty, objectivity, integrity, impartiality....
...Former Cabinet secretary Lord O’Donnell warned on Wednesday morning that the Article 50 exit process had been designed by EU member states that wanted to deter other countries from leaving the bloc....
...George Parker is the FT’s political editor Illustration by James Ferguson Letter in response to this article: Osborne would have fired on an outdoor range / From Fionnuala McHugh...
...That’s coming through in prices stagnating,” says Richard Donnell, research director at housing market analyst Hometrack....
...Lord O’Donnell, who helped steer those negotiations, said the next government could take considerably longer to put together....
...Dionne O’Donnell, a restaurant worker, said that Mr Cameron’s visit was “a bit late”....
...Lord O’Donnell, cabinet secretary and head of the civil service until the end of 2011, and his successor, Sir Jeremy Heywood, are understood to have raised early concerns over the potential break-up of...
...“Four per cent is the magic number [where buying becomes cheaper],” said Mr Donnell....
...The FT’s political editor George Parker explains what will happen in the likely event of a hung parliament....
...Lord O’Donnell said. Lord Forsyth of Drumlean, a Tory former cabinet minister, said the plans were “ill-thought through, confused and muddled’’....
...Lord O’Donnell, the former cabinet secretary, said the cabinet had allowed the Queen to attend as a way of expressing its gratitude towards her. “It’s an observer role....
...Allies of George Osborne said the idea was “interesting” but that Lord O’Donnell was not flying a kite on behalf of the chancellor....
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