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...The writer, a former senior adviser to UK chancellors Philip Hammond and Sajid Javid, is a partner at Flint Global; he writes in a personal capacity Boris Johnson’s government has been fundamentally “un-Conservative...
...For Churchill, Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan, this was their only experience of shared national sacrifice. These men couldn’t entirely feel above the rules that bound the lower orders....
...The writer is a former senior Treasury adviser to Sajid Javid and Philip Hammond....
...Two former chancellors, Ken Clarke and Philip Hammond, and others, might no longer be in Mr Johnson’s party by the end of the week, possibly the start of a formal schism....
...Mr Hammond will now lead the fight against a no-deal Brexit from the backbenches in the House of Commons....
...Standing on the steps of Downing Street he said “no ifs or buts” Britain would leave the EU in 99 days’ time and carried out a cabinet clear-out that made Harold Macmillan’s 1962 “Night of the Long Knives...
...Some Conservatives are bracing themselves for a bloody reshuffle, similar to Harold Macmillan’s “Night of the Long Knives”, when seven ministers were dismissed in one night in 1962 in an attempt to rejuvenate...
...2010 and 1.3% cuts at SR 2015....
...Even with a small majority the chancellor, Phillip Hammond, was defeated on his proposal for a tax rise on the self-employed in his 2017 budget....
...His Budget did not go down well with the country, the cabinet or, most importantly, with prime minister Harold Macmillan....
...One of the band’s co-leaders, veteran pianist Harold Mabern, had been taken ill and was replaced on piano by Mike LeDonne, with saxophonist Seamus Blake added to join leader Eric Alexander on tenor in the...
...Mrs May, who had planned to sack Philip Hammond after last year’s election, concluded that she could not risk moving a chancellor who has done much to reassure business and the City of London over the future...
...But Philip Hammond isn’t giving up without a fight....
...Mr Hammond appears unmoved....
...Margaret Beckett 2006-2007 Labour Margaret Beckett is the last surviving member of Harold Wilson’s government in the House of Commons....
...Keep the Brits in Space The FT argues there’s no point in kicking UK companies out of the EU’s Galileo space programme after Philip Hammond threatened to sabotage the €10bn project....
...Public sector house building had its heyday in the 1950s when Harold Macmillan was the Conservative housing minister, but such provision was drastically curbed by Margaret Thatcher’s government....
...Other far-reaching ideas floating around the corridors of 1 Horse Guards Road, the finance ministry’s headquarters, include whether Harold Wilson’s failed 1960s experiment of a Department of Economic Affairs...
...This is Mrs May’s dilemma: she wants her government to be spend and intervene a little more — less Margaret Thatcher, more Harold Macmillian....
...Harold Macmillan, a former prime minister, is said to have told a journalist that what might blow a government off course is: “Events, dear boy, events.”...
...Hopefully, Theresa May and Philip Hammond haven’t forgotten the lessons of the past, because the Achilles heel is back....
...Harold Wilson tried that with the Department of Economic Affairs but it failed. Subsequent prime ministers, spurred by frustrated advisers, have toyed with clipping the Treasury’s wings....
...But the fact is Philip Hammond doesn't have that much money to play with, and the budget coming up in November is going to be tricky....
...Harold Evensky, chairman of US financial planning firm Evensky & Katz, says that in his almost four decades of experience, most clients who trade tend to get things wrong....
...The seven-acre grounds, designed by US landscape architect Quincy Hammond and inspired by the likes of Gertrude Jekyll and Harold Peto, include a cut flower garden stocked with large groupings of white catmint...
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