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...Lords reform is hardly a novel cause, but it is uniquely difficult to implement....
...Financier and philanthropist Lord Jacob Rothschild has died aged 87, his family has said....
...Lord David Willetts, the former education minister who chairs the Innovate Cambridge partnership said: “Cambridge needs to provide for its high tech growth”....
...The year-long commission was chaired by IfG director Hannah White and deputy chaired by historian Sir Anthony Seldon....
...It would also need to gain approval for any specific changes via an “affirmative” vote in both the Commons and the Lords....
...Meanwhile former Lord Chancellor Sir Robert Buckland called for “a root-and-branch review and a change to the nature of HMRC”....
...In 2016, a UK review led by Lord Jim O’Neill, an economist and former Goldman Sachs banker, forecast the number of annual deaths from antimicrobial resistance would rise to 10mn by 2050 — approximately the...
...Last May, Lord Jacob Rothschild hosted a 100th birthday lunch for former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger at Waddesdon Manor, his 19th-century French château in the Buckinghamshire countryside....
...Beeban Kidron, a member of the House of Lords who originally proposed the amendment to the UK’s data law, said she had received pushback, both “directly and indirectly” from lobbyists for several large tech...
...In a government-commissioned report published on Friday, former life sciences minister Lord James O’Shaughnessy made recommendations to address a dramatic drop in the number of commercial trials in the UK...
...But as Hannah Ritchie notes in her thoughtful new book Not the End of the World, per capita coal emissions in the UK peaked more than 100 years ago....
...The British legislation, which is making its way through the House of Lords, would enable media regulator Ofcom to make companies scan messages with “approved technology” to identify child sexual abuse material...
...If so, Braverman may even relish the prospect of the legislation getting bogged down — in the Lords and then in the courts — and doesn’t expect to implement the provisions ahead of the general election....
...In January, a House of Lords committee report found reforms to the scheme would “not be effective in isolation” and the government needed to improve compliance efforts....
...It is simply applying the norms they have in their own country,” said James Bethell, a member of the UK’s House of Lords and of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China....
...Money Clinic talks to Lord John Lee, the UK’s first ISA millionaire, about his strategies....
...“Twitter’s current lords & peasants system for who has or doesn’t have a blue checkmark is bullshit,” he said, adding: “Power to the people!”...
...Hannah Murphy got a lot of access to new X boss Yaccarino, and it shows....
...But Hannah White, director of the Institute for Government, a think-tank, said: “The potential benefit of political signalling and marshalling resources behind the government’s priorities needs to be weighed...
...Hannah White, deputy head of the Institute for Government, a think-tank, said prime ministers had a responsibility to reduce the upper chamber rather than increase it....
...Lucy FisherCamilla, Hannah Marshall asks a related question: what factors and events do you think are most likely to affect the outcome of the UK general election, and are there any plausible scenarios in...
...Plus, the resignation of Lord Christopher Geidt, the prime minister’s independent adviser on ministerial ethics. Why did he quit after a turbulent year?...
...This article has been amended to correct the title of Lord George Leggatt...
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