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...Reading The Iliad in the present, one wonders if Helen was the Meghan Markle to Homer’s Jeremy Clarkson....
...Boris Johnson imagines the “paleosceptic” Iain Duncan Smith, a former leader of the Tory party, as an RAF wing commander, flying sorties over Bremen....
...British government figures said that Shein chair Donald Tang requested a meeting with chancellor Jeremy Hunt last month....
...The third, the introduction of universal credit overseen by Iain Duncan Smith, Steven Crabb, Damian Green, David Gauke, Esther McVey, Amber Rudd, Thérèse Coffey, Chloe Smith and Mel Stride, has yet to be...
...The rightwing group, including former cabinet ministers, has claimed in a letter to chancellor Jeremy Hunt that the Office for Budget Responsibility forecasting errors could be “holding back the country’...
...Now, under their successors, Jeremy Hunt and Rishi Sunak, the pendulum has swung back in the opposite direction....
...“People who turned away from us during the Corbyn years and the Brexit years are coming back,” he will say, referring to Jeremy Corbyn, the former hard-left leader of the party....
...Jeremy Bloom, an immigration solicitor at Duncan Lewis Solicitors, said Sunak’s proposal was “legally not feasible” and amounted to “hot air”....
...Jeremy Bloom, a solicitor at Duncan Lewis, which helped co-ordinate the letter, said the civil legal aid system had “been at breaking point for years”....
...Can I put on hold Jeremy Hunt’s?...
...UK chancellor Jeremy Hunt is set to take on rightwing Tory MPs by rejecting calls for big tax cuts in his Budget, insisting he can grow the economy without another wave of debt-funded fiscal loosening....
...The writer is the author of ‘Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through: The Surprising Story of the British Economy’ At his Autumn Statement in late November, British chancellor Jeremy Hunt set himself three...
...Liz Truss is expected to join Conservative party calls for tax cuts ahead of Jeremy Hunt’s March Budget, despite new forecasts warning of slower growth and lower tax revenues than expected....
...Now, as I’ve written before, and as the Economist’s Duncan Robinson sets out in an excellent column, that’s in large part because Sunak just is pretty rightwing....
...Sir Iain Duncan Smith, a former Conservative party leader, said this week that the 2030 deadline was “simply not achievable”....
...In a statement to the Financial Times, Clim8’s chief executive Duncan Grierson said the business remained solvent but he could not guarantee that crowdfunding backers, who hold a 15 per cent stake, would...
...Jeremy Hunt, Britain’s new chancellor, is a much more establishment figure and his appointment is no doubt intended to signal that this government takes fiscal conservatism more seriously....
...But of course, politically, it puts Rachel Reeves very much in the same box as Jeremy Hunt....
...Then, according to Tory MPs briefed by chancellor Jeremy Hunt, the spring Budget of 2024 will be the pivotal moment in this parliament, when growth returns and tax cuts become possible....
...Replacing the polarising far-left veteran Jeremy Corbyn, Starmer has proved a steady pair of hands, turning the party around to the extent where it is in a position to capitalise on the Tories’ woes....
...Rachel Duncan, 60, who is originally from England, has lived in the area since 1982. “I was one of those chalet girls who got stuck,” she says....
...Over on his blog, Giles Wilkes has an excellent summary of that debate, as does Duncan Weldon in his Value Added newsletter....
...Jeremy HuntWe do have an industrial strategy. We’ve been very clear about that....
...So, in line with Duncan Weldon’s observations, FinTwit reckons the wrong lessons look like they’ve been learned by UK fiscal policymakers who are now set on a massive round of austerity....
...Keeping Jeremy Hunt as chancellor would reassure markets. A Tory Goat, however, would need a strong whiff of Brexit....
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