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...Sir Julian pointed out that when President Donald Trump’s administration briefly downgraded the status of the EU ambassador in Washington in late 2018, Gordon Sondland, then US ambassador to the EU, was...
...Sir Julian noted that the upshot was that Gordon Sondland, then-US ambassador to the EU, was “basically frozen out of contact with the institutions for quite a long time”....
...Erik Gordon, a professor at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, said the views of the Big Four were relevant to policy decisions....
...John Appleby, chief economist of the Nuffield Trust health think-tank told the BBC that ending the contracts could cost in the region of £50bn....
...He is as much of an outsider as Sir Humphrey Appleby. Still, it is on the topic of immigration where Labour appears to be most out of step with its traditional working-class supporters....
...“It was a big credibility problem for the Church and it became an outright crisis,” Prof Appleby said. If anything, the issue for the Church has only become more acute....
...But Yes Minister is anathema because of its portrayal of a fictional cabinet secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleby, whose mission in life is to frustrate the agenda of his ministerial masters....
...The great fictional mandarin Sir Humphrey Appleby must surely rank as one of Britain’s more successful exports ever....
...Seat of government So Gordon Brown has finally admitted he must eventually go. Couldn’t they just let him stay in Downing Street for good?...
...He went to work on Blair and on Gordon Brown, the chancellor. Blair was keener than Brown....
...Is it because officials are terrified of Gordon Brown? Did this start with the prime minister’s pique over the leaks?”...
...The spirit of Sir Humphrey Appleby lives! The great fictional mandarin of television’s Yes Minister did not fade away....
...When he took over as prime minister, Gordon Brown pledged to build 3m homes by 2020 – a promise of 240,000 new homes a year that is looking increasingly precarious....
...“We have to move forward into other areas and quality and integrity are now increasingly provided by celebrity endorsement,” Appleby says....
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