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...Labour’s manifesto will be finalised when Starmer holds a “Clause V meeting” attended by the shadow cabinet, union representatives and other senior party figures, but that cannot happen until Sunak calls...
...Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s Christmas Day deadline....
...One senior cabinet minister said: “Whitehall has been planning the funeral for decades but it’s the most complicated logistical occasion you could imagine.”...
...One former cabinet minister said there was a “case for the defence” that Zahawi may have been disputing the Inland Revenue officials just as he became chancellor....
...He’s only five percentage points behind Keir Starmer in the polls on who make the best prime minister as opposed to 20-something on the Labour v Tory one....
...One cabinet minister told the FT: “This could all have been done months ago, but it was him.” Additional reporting by Jim Pickard in London...
...Jacob Rees-Mogg, a Cabinet Office minister, has written to cabinet ministers urging them to merge or close quangos — semi-public administrative bodies — to save taxpayers’ money as part of a broader public...
...We’re staring into our warm glass of white wine, talking to various members of the cabinet. But the mood was pretty bad....
...The government’s plans to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda have polarised opinion, with the archbishops of Canterbury and York, together with 23 bishops, joining the outcry and describing the policy on Tuesday...
...Political correspondents Jim Pickard and Sebastian Payne explain who’s who in the new “unity cabinet”....
...In recent years, however, the Tories have cemented control of both Westminster constituencies — Swindon North and Swindon South, the latter held by former cabinet minister Robert Buckland — as well as the...
...Additional reporting by Jim Pickard in London...
...Dehenna Davison, the first Tory MP for Bishop Auckland, elected at the 2019 election, said Johnson’s optimism was core to his appeal in Labour’s former heartlands....
...Helen Goodman, former MP for Bishop Auckland, which turned Tory in 2019, said she thought the strategy was working....
...Mr Kwarteng, a former chair of the Bow Group, a traditional Tory think-tank, is one of a clique of free marketeers who entered parliament in 2010 and now sit in the cabinet....
...Andrew Adonis, a former Labour cabinet minister — and a vehement pro-EU voice — said it was a mistake to presume that the party lost so many seats entirely because of Brexit....
...He has even lost the trust of bishops of the Church of England, known for much of the 20th century as “the Tory party at prayer”....
...If you missed it, this long read by our media correspondent Anna Nicolaou charts the drama of The People v Harvey Weinstein trial....
...Under Tony Blair, he was a rising Labour star; had Ed Miliband won in 2015, he was in line for the cabinet. He was never going to flourish under Corbyn....
...The treaty echoes the spirit of many Franco-German initiatives down the years including joint cabinet meetings and efforts to harmonise their corporate tax rates....
...Other parties in the coalition include the Dutch-speaking liberal party and the conservative CD & V....
...He served as shadow work and pensions secretary in Mr Corbyn’s first shadow cabinet....
...Held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, it showcased the best of contemporary Scottish design and acted as an appetiser for the V&A Museum of Design Dundee, due to open on the city’s waterfront next year...
...But one Labour insider said that expecting MPs to quit the party was “like expecting a bishop to renounce God” given how “tribal” they were....
...“Parker is giving movie theaters the opportunity that record stores never had, but it’s up to them to take it,” suggested the film journalist Bryan Bishop on The Verge....
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