Hints and tips:
...from Lloyd Austin, the US defence secretary, on Thursday....
...Brainard’s departure marks a rather abrupt exit from the US central bank’s leadership for the former Treasury under-secretary for international affairs....
...Stephen BushSo I’m actually going to sell James Cleverly, which might seem a bit counterintuitive, but you know, ultimately he’s just become, you know, the first black person to be home secretary ever....
...‘Burying the bad news’ Sue Gray has quit her post as second permanent secretary at Michael Gove’s department to become Keir Starmer’s new chief of staff....
...Another key figure is James Nation, a former civil servant who first met Sunak during his tenure at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities....
...James Cleverly, a former Foreign Office minister and briefly education secretary, was promoted to foreign secretary....
...This Thursday, FT journalists Edward Luce, Rana Foroohar and James Politi will be joined by veteran commentator Norm Ornstein for a subscriber-exclusive event assessing the US midterm results....
...Hermann Hauser, veteran technology entrepreneur, was closely involved in the founding of Arm and objected to its sale in 2016....
...We’re sitting in Marietta Square in the middle of town, where there is a fountain, a gazebo and a playground. Even in mid-November, Veterans Day decorations of American flags linger on....
...Janet Yellen, US Treasury secretary, warned last week that the Treasury may run out of cash next month....
...assistant secretary, Global Affairs, US Department of Health and Human Services Pascal LamyPresident of the Paris Peace Forum and former director-general of the WTO Jack LeslieChair, Weber Shandwick Gary...
...STATE Bill Burns, a former deputy secretary of state and a widely respected foreign service veteran, would be a welcome choice among the department’s ranks to rebuild morale at Foggy Bottom and relationships...
...Marcia Fudge, a veteran of the Congressional Black Caucus, has been tapped to head up the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Susan Rice, a former official in the administration of Barack...
...Denis McDonough, who will be secretary of veterans affairs, was Obama’s chief of staff and deputy national security adviser. He has no healthcare experience....
...The Whitehall favourite is Chris Wormald, permanent secretary at the Department of Health and Social Care. But officials question whether he will be tainted by the handling of coronavirus crisis....
...Previously he was UK ambassador to Denmark, director of strategy in the Foreign Office and then director for Europe, trade and international affairs at the business department, as well as special adviser...
...Mr Garnier, a graduate of France’s prestigious École Polytechnique, was a technical adviser to Michel Barnier in the 1990s, when the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator was Jacques Chirac’s European affairs secretary...
...During the course of his probe, Mr Mueller spun out a swath of matters that continue to be examined by other parts of the justice department....
...The government has rejected these complaints, arguing that the annual spending on the memorial was less than 1 per cent of the department of veteran’s affairs’ A$11bn annual budget....
...She joins from US buyout group Carlyle where she was associate vice-president of global external affairs. Before that, Sallerfors worked at Brunswick Group and Kreab Worldwide....
...He said on Friday night that he had authorised the disclosure of information to a journalist with the knowledge of his public affairs officer, a legal counsellor and the then FBI director Mr Comey....
...The Porter affair has also cast a pall over John Kelly, the chief of staff, who claimed that he fired Mr Porter within 40 minutes of learning of the allegations....
...But this veteran of visits to distant satrapies knows the importance of putting on a good show. As soon as he was down the ladder he was in full sec-gen mode....
...He adds: “The PMU’s endgame is either to take control of the state, or, if they can’t, [to at least] be part of the state. “But they also have a plan B....
...I have been here 10 months, which in this administration makes me a veteran. I have outlasted a national security adviser, a chief of staff, two communications directors and a health secretary....
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