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...“Hip and knee replacements may be ‘planned’ rather than ‘emergency’ but this doesn’t mean that people’s quality of life hasn’t deteriorated sharply,” he added....
...If they’re hiding something, it definitely isn’t their contempt for Fitzwilliam....
...Now that extraordinary double act moves to the West End stage with Backstairs Billy, a new comedy from Marcelo Dos Santos, starring Penelope Wilton and Luke Evans....
...It doesn’t have structural rigidity, so its elasticity will start working against you at some point.”...
...Wilton and Evans are superb....
...A Redfield and Wilton Strategies poll this month put Sunak’s approval rating at a record low of -21....
...“We aren’t holding out much hope for either,” admitted one Tory strategist. Campaigning by senior Conservatives has been low profile....
...“These are things I simply couldn’t let go of,” she says....
...Wiltons opened in 1742 as an oyster stall and launched as a restaurant in the 1840s....
...If people say ‘oh don’t mention it’, nothing’s going to change.”...
...That’s the trick that he pulled off, voters like to feel like someone cares for them and they aren’t being neglected . . . for once they thought there was no reason they shouldn’t vote Tory.”...
...Last year, Pacoima, a community in Los Angeles, painted 1mn square feet of roads, playgrounds, and basketball courts with a reflective paint, which doesn't absorb as much heat as uncoated surfaces would....
...The first is that we don’t have as much opinion polling to draw on as I would like....
...The major reason why I don’t think Sunak’s reset is the right approach is that I think it just gives off the wrong tone....
...The Labour party also issued a statement attacking the Tories for “failing on both housing and the environment” — but notably didn’t actually disagree with policy....
...If you can’t have a clean air zone in London without a political backlash, you can’t have a clean air zone anywhere in the UK....
...The chart is from Redfield and Wilton, but the trend is the same across all the pollsters....
...Even though, according to Redfield and Wilton polling this summer, a large portion of 2019 Tory voters now think Brexit has left the economy weaker, the NHS worse off and the cost of living higher, for Conservatives...
...“I don’t want any water, thank you. Wine is better.” He has been coming to Wiltons since the 1950s: it turns out it has also been the venue for some of the most momentous events of his life....
...This was a huge blow to a man whose favourite cocktail was a Banana Daiquiri, and whose sole ambition on returning to London is to get to Wiltons, in Mayfair, in order to eat its bread-and-butter pudding...
...Recent elections mean that the two parties don’t really compete for parliamentary seats with one another in a major way anymore, and Starmer and Ed Davey will mostly stay out of each other’s way. 3) Increase...
...know” (after all, they haven’t yet)....
...“As the ancient Israelites escaped, they didn’t have time to wait for bread to rise, so to remember this, we don’t eat any leaven food and totally clean our houses of all ingredients that we are not allowed...
...But we still don’t have any reliably solid information on what SNP members make of all this....
...Polling by Redfield & Wilton puts Labour 26 points ahead — the largest lead for the party since Sunak became prime minister....
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