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...Two other MPC members — Jonathan Haskel and Catherine Mann — continued to demand a further quarter-point increase. Additional reporting by Delphine Strauss...
...The MPC meeting came after chancellor Jeremy Hunt cut personal and business taxes in his Autumn Statement last month....
...Catherine Mann, an external member of the MPC, agreed with the former governor that not raising interest rates fast enough last year might have been a policy mistake....
...It has become the stuff of myth that he paid out $1.7bn to Anna Murdoch Mann, the mother of Elisabeth, James and Lachlan (currently co-chairman of News Corp), on their divorce in 1999....
...This could be seen as vindication of the arguments put forward by Catherine Mann, the most hawkish member of the MPC, who argued in February that a year of policy tightening had not yet had as much of an...
...As Mann of the MPC tartly noted last month, “no other country chose to unilaterally impose trade barriers on its closest trading partners”....
...“The labour market remains tight and there has been evidence of inflationary pressures in domestic prices and wages that could indicate greater persistence,” he wrote in a letter to Jeremy Hunt, the chancellor...
...That message was echoed at the weekend by Catherine Mann, another MPC member....
...MAY Art is Magic by Jeremy Deller (Cheerio) Blending pop music, film, politics and history, the British artist Jeremy Deller examines the wide-ranging influences on his own work....
...Mr Watson said on Monday that his party had been “afraid to tell the truth” about the benefits of staying in the bloc, in a seeming jab at Jeremy Corbyn, whose position is much more Eurosceptic....
...“Jeremy Strong [who plays Roy’s son Kendall] is a wonderful actor. He does that method thing, which I have never . . . well, it is horses for courses....
...Commissioned by United St Saviour’s Charity and designed by Witherford Watson Mann Architects, the Almshouse in Southwark, south London, will provide 57 one- and two-bedroom apartments for older people....
...At least nine Labour MPs are thought to be seriously considering defying their leader Jeremy Corbyn and voting for a Brexit deal finalised by Mr Johnson with the EU....
...“It is clear that Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour want to betray the will of the British people,” he said....
...Two Labour MPs, Kate Hoey and John Mann, supported the government....
...“Brexit, really, is the issue,” said Mr Mann. “And it’s where [Mr Bailey is] on comfortable ground....
...John Mann, a Eurosceptic Labour MP, warned of a major backlash from Leave voters in the party’s heartlands....
...Jeremy Corbyn, Labour leader, said the deal failed his party’s six tests and represented a “leap into the dark”....
...Significantly, she was flanked by two younger Eurosceptic MPs: Ben Bradley and Scott Mann....
...John Mann, one of the authors of the new amendment, said it would make Mrs May’s deal “more attractive” by tackling some of Labour’s concerns....
...Later Mr Mann told ITV News that some Labour MPs wanted a national fund for industrial towns in return for their backing....
...Jeremy Corbyn on Thursday hinted the Labour party could delay Brexit if it succeeded in forcing a general election....
...Labour backbenchers should feel comfortable backing Mrs May’s deal A rump of 27 Labour Brexiters (eg, John Mann, Jim Fitzpatrick) and Labour Remainers in Leave-voting seats (eg, Gloria De Piero, Ian Austin...
...Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has put forward one that rejects Mrs May’s deal because it “fails to provide for a permanent UK-EU customs union and strong single market deal”....
...Labour rebels Between 5 and 15 MPs A handful of hardcore pro-Brexit Labour MPs such as John Mann are likely to support Mrs May’s deal....
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