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...Additional contributions from George Russell and Benjamin Wilhelm...
...Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves and David Lammy, shadow foreign secretary, have recently joined Starmer in endorsing the reforming vision and drive of the “Iron Lady”, even if they do not agree with all...
...The luxurious property owned by Italy’s late former prime minister has hosted several world leaders including George W Bush, Tony Blair and Vladimir Putin. Here’s more on the lavish Villa Certosa....
...“Getting John Major, Tony Blair, George Osborne and Gordon Brown to agree on something is unusual,” Balls told the Financial Times....
...They had a charismatic leader — a Labour peer once told me they thought Clegg was the most charismatic leader the Liberals had had since David Lloyd George — they did well in the TV debates, and they surged...
...Additional contributions from George Russell, Benjamin Wilhelm, Grace Ramos and Euan Healy...
...George ParkerAnd of course, the alternative to the OBR doing the forecast is the Treasury doing the forecast itself, which is what Gordon Brown used to do when he was chancellor....
...Hoon and Patricia Hewitt, in the dying days of that government, went over the top, thinking that that could precipitate a leadership challenge from David Miller....
...Scotland’s best talent, Freddy Waldhausen Gordon, 13, missed an IM norm by just half a point, as he and Royal prepared for their opponents together....
...David Cameron’s unorthodox comeback as the UK’s top diplomat brings experience as well as baggage to Downing Street....
...Sunak has appeared to relish the fight with four former prime ministers — Gordon Brown, Cameron, Theresa May and Boris Johnson — over HS2....
...Meanwhile, four former prime ministers — Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Theresa May and Boris Johnson — have urged him to complete the route. “It’s just stubbornness,” said one ministerial aide....
...“There remains some hardware headwinds, which may give us a read on the overall consumer right now,” said David Wagner, portfolio manager at Aptus Capital Advisors....
...Take a break from the news George Orwell’s warnings about state control and surveillance are often invoked — especially now, in the age of artificial intelligence and big data....
...In the coming days the growing political backlash against Sunak’s plan went into overdrive as four former prime ministers — Labour’s Gordon Brown and Conservatives’ David Cameron, Theresa May and Boris Johnson...
...Anything Gordon Brown can do, Rishi Sunak can do better?...
...George Parker Exactly. He’s almost revelling in the fact that this decision has been criticised by four previous prime ministers, actually — Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Theresa May and Boris Johnson....
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...He would shave off both his Trotskyism and his beard, the former through conviction, the latter on instruction from Gordon Brown in 1997....
...“We would welcome more transparency on price and fuel,” Gordon Gafa, commercial director of Tesco, told the House of Commons business select committee....
...The public response was so positive that the then prime minister, Labour’s Gordon Brown, decided against calling a snap general election....
...“David Pecker insisted that he have pictures of himself with JFK Jr,” said veteran New York media columnist Keith Kelly in the documentary Scandalous: The Untold Story of the National Enquirer....
...At the table on Trump’s side was David Cornstein, the former US ambassador to Budapest, Susie Wiles, his campaign’s top political strategist, and Fred Fleitz, a former National Security Council official...
...When George Osborne did it in 2007, he scared Gordon Brown away from calling an election. But even Osborne never went through with it. Can the Conservatives find a new raison d’être?...
...Gordon lays fresh flowers on it every week....
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