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...Sue Gray, a former senior civil servant, is organising training sessions with shadow ministers ahead of their initial conversations with the officials who, if Labour wins the next election, would activate...
...The government said in the Queen’s Speech last year that it would publish draft legislation to underpin the audit and corporate governance reforms during the current parliamentary session....
...Sir Jim Ratcliffe climbs into what feels like an old Land Rover Defender, but isn’t. “This is your Grenadier?”...
...The Labour leader had earlier in the session noted that Esther Ghey would be watching their exchanges from the gallery....
...Nearby is the Black Gull café run by Sam Delaney, a former City trader who nearly lost his life to addiction and now offers creative sessions for people who have struggled with substance abuse....
...Truss confirmed on Wednesday that she would dilute the plans when the delayed bill returns to the House of Commons in the current parliamentary session....
...In a sign of disarray, the Commons also voted on — but rejected — a motion to hold a session in private....
...Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer traded blows over the state of the NHS during a testy session of prime minister’s questions on Wednesday ahead of the autumn statement....
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...A total of 15 bills are new, while six have been “carried over” from the last parliamentary session....
...There will then be a “carry-over motion” which will allow the bill to make it through into the next parliamentary session that begins with the King’s Speech on November 7....
...After the listening session in Berlin, we had a small intermission before director Jim Jarmusch held an audience with us, and I found myself processing the experience with the man, a stranger, sitting beside...
...The next session begins on November 7. Gove is still hopeful the bill will have its crucial second reading before that date, and that it could be “carried over”....
...The King’s Speech, the first delivered by a male monarch for more than 70 years, marks the start of the final session of parliament before the next election and is an attempt by Sunak to sharpen the political...
...Last year the government promised in the final Queen’s Speech that it would produce a draft bill on audit reform during the current parliamentary session, but this has still not happened....
...“They’re one of the most important Irish bands of their generation,” says Jim Carroll, chairman of the RTÉ Choice Music Prize, an annual award akin to the UK’s Mercury Prize....
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...Joe Biden’s relationship with corporate America is complicated as he courts executives with listening sessions but bristles them with his tax and regulatory plans....
...“Extraordinary misjudgment by the board to issue [that statement] and then have to go into a midnight session,” said a rival banking executive....
...The debate among G7 leaders over AI was a significant part of the opening session of the three-day summit, dedicated to the global economy....
...Rishi Sunak has slammed the Labour party’s energy policy, warning that its plan to end new licenses for North Sea oil and gas drilling would “jeopardise 200,000 jobs” during a tetchy session of the weekly...
...The cross-party committee is likely to hold a one-off session before parliament breaks for the summer recess in less than a fortnight....
...Among Millstein’s survivors is his son Jim Millstein, the well-known investment banker who served in the Obama administration....
...The chair of the Business and Trade Committee, Darren Jones, confirmed on Tuesday it would imminently hold a public scrutiny session over “alleged false accounting” at the Post Office....
...Modi, who was seated next to Zelenskyy during the final session at the summit, greeted the Ukrainian leader with a warm handshake and joked with him as members of the press were ushered out....
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