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...Presented by George Parker, with deputy opinion editor Miranda Green, columnist Robert Shrimsley and special guests Conservative MP Greg Clark and Hannah White, director of the Institute for Government....
...Steve Baker, the prominent Brexit campaigner, was reappointed a Northern Ireland minister, Greg Hands stayed as trade minister and Graham Stuart as energy minister....
...Greg Clark is set to be appointed as Johnson’s levelling up secretary, according to government insiders. The former business secretary will replace Michael Gove, who was sacked by Johnson last night....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] George ParkerWell, Greg Clark and Hannah White, thank you for joining us. And that’s it for this episode of Payne’s Politics. If you like the podcast, we recommend subscribing....
...Sebastian Payne is the FT’s Whitehall editor....
...Levelling up secretary Greg Clark said that a new North Yorkshire combined authority would be created with powers to oversee local transport, skills and house building....
...He has already started to fill some ministerial vacancies, with Greg Clark set to come in — temporarily — as “levelling-up secretary”....
...Johnson’s critics were reassured by the fact his final cabinet includes moderate and respected Tory MPs including Greg Clark, Gove’s replacement, and Sir Robert Buckland, the new Welsh secretary....
...Shameless self-promotion I joined Seb Payne on his podcast this week....
...He replaces Greg Ruiz, who left the fund to join investment firm Jasper Ridge Partners....
...Additional reporting by Sebastian Payne...
...Many Tory MPs, including Rees-Mogg, are keen to lift the “fracking” ban, but others agree with Greg Hands, energy minister, who told the Commons this month that shale gas was “not the solution to near-term...
...“I walked out and thought, ‘This is absolutely crazy’,” says Payne....
...Greg Hands, energy minister, said the shake-up was proof that Johnson was “taking charge” and delivering on his pledge to MPs....
...In a letter seen by the Financial Times, Greg Hands, the minister for trade policy, was warned by business chiefs that “competition with US companies flooding the market with lower standard goods will only...
...Sebastian Payne has the inside track on the party’s planned timetable to elect a replacement....
...Leading the questioning of Dominic Cummings this morning are two of the Conservative party’s most senior MPs: Jeremy Hunt, the UK’s longest serving health secretary, and Greg Clark, the former business secretary...
...But Greg Clark and Jeremy Hunt, the chair of the science and health select committees leading the hearings, will be strict on the remit of their inquiries....
...Greg Clark, chair of the science committee, said it did not require “fancy modelling” to work out that Plan A could result in perhaps 400,000 deaths....
...Greg Hands, the trade minister, told MPs that the genocide amendment would be an “unprecedented and unacceptable erosion” of parliament’s sovereignty, but pledged to work with the rebels to find a solution...
...But Greg Clark, chair of the House of Commons science committee, said the government was nevertheless alert to the possibilities at an early stage....
...Like Nick Payne’s Constellations, it plays with metaphysical speculation, but does so wittily and uses the space of theatre to make ideas concrete....
...Greg Clark, chair of the Commons science committee, shared the view of many Tories that it was regrettable a decision to close schools was not taken before Monday, when primary schools reopened in many parts...
...“Dave’s problem was not that he didn’t believe it but he was cautious about financial commitments,” says Greg Barker, former climate change minister, who was on that Arctic trip 14 years ago....
...West End for this musical version of the 1985 film.From August 20, backtothefuturemusical.com HamletYoung Vic, LondonCush Jumbo plays Shakespeare’s troubled prince as she makes her Young Vic debut in Greg...
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