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...He set aside £520mn in his November Autumn Statement to “build resilience for future health emergencies and capitalise on the UK’s R&D strengths”....
...In 1997, Clarke handed over an economy growing at 4 per cent to his Labour successor, Gordon Brown....
...George Parker I’m gonna sell Robert Jenrick, the former cabinet minister, former immigration minister....
...That means that the “R” word will be hanging around the prime minister’s neck until at least May, when the next quarterly GDP figures are released, unless last year’s figures are revised upwards in the meantime...
...Anderson last year told local Tory activists in Cambridgeshire: “Now there is a political party that begins with an R that offered me a lot of money to join them....
...In 2007 Gordon Brown invited Thatcher into Number 10 for tea as he tried to create a “big tent” around his new administration, intended to reassure former Tory voters that he would not be a tribal Labour...
...The group also turns its attention to two very different former PMs, as the FT publishes major interviews with both Liz Truss and Gordon Brown this week....
...US R&B singer Miguel has an attractive cameo in “Saturnine”....
...“Sunak’s big claim is that he knows how to run the economy, but if the ‘R’ word is being discussed in an election year, that’s very bad for him. We want to fight the election on the economy.”...
...George Parker In public spending. Stephen Bush In public spending, right?...
...Rachel Reeves, shadow chancellor, on Tuesday pledged a Labour government would aim to borrow only to invest, echoing the fiscal rules of former Labour chancellor Gordon Brown....
...Lord Ken Clarke, former Tory chancellor, is said by Hunt’s allies to be a particular hero: Clarke oversaw an economic revival in the 1990s which ultimately was inherited by the incoming Labour chancellor Gordon...
...In your front page report by George Parker, Sam Fleming and Delphine Strauss, “Reeves recalls Brown’s fiscal rule with pledge to borrow only for investment” (March 20), you note that Gordon Brown, Tony Blair...
...George Parker Just one other observation, William....
...The R-word now hanging around Rishi Sunak, which she was quick to exploit....
...A Brazilian court has ordered iron ore producer Samarco along with its owners Vale and BHP to pay R$47.6bn ($9.7bn) in compensation for a dam collapse that triggered one of the country’s worst environmental...
...“Getting John Major, Tony Blair, George Osborne and Gordon Brown to agree on something is unusual,” Balls told the Financial Times....
...But the current system is far superior to what it replaced, which was Gordon Brown cooking the books to justify a massive expansion of state spending on each and every occasion.”...
...Gordon Brown, Labour prime minister during the financial crash, said: “I am deeply saddened by the death of Alistair Darling. I, like many, relied on his wisdom, calmness in a crisis and his humour.”...
...But Starmer’s team has studied closely what Blair and his chancellor, Gordon Brown, did in office and it may provide a template for what happens next....
...What we’re also reading and listening to Law: David R Jones made Houston the nation’s insolvency capital before an undisclosed relationship forced his resignation and prompted calls for reform....
...Labour former prime ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, Conservative leader John Major and former Tory chancellor George Osborne are among those calling for a more consistent cross-party approach....
...This was down to the political leadership of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, who brought the lives of the world’s poorest people into the heart of Whitehall.”...
...Former Labour chancellor Gordon Brown, who later became prime minister, has already written the playbook for dealing with such potential traps by promising to stick to Conservatives’ spending plans....
...After visiting Bahrain, where the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet is stationed, the defence secretary will stop aboard the USS Gerald R Ford aircraft carrier, currently in the eastern Mediterranean, and also travel...
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