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...Clarke said he was “surprised” at recent comments by Lord Nick Macpherson, former Treasury permanent secretary, that this year’s contest would be a “good election to win” and that economic gloom had been...
...“In the last 15 years, real wages have barely grown,” said John Van Reenen, professor at the London School of Economics....
...Scotland’s deputy first minister John Swinney has said the governing Scottish National party needs “fresh perspective” to help build support for independence following the shock resignation of leader Nicola...
...works by Edward Hopper, including the landscape painting “Cobb’s Barns, South Truro” (1930-33, estimate $8mn-$12mn), have been consigned for sale at Sotheby’s New York next month along with two pieces by John...
...Lord Nick Macpherson, former Treasury permanent secretary, said Lawson was one of the greatest chancellors of the 20th century....
...Only when John Major tied sterling and himself to the mast of the European exchange rate mechanism in 1990 was there a brief reversion to the old days of making a fetish of the exchange rate....
...Sir John Major’s Tory government suffered a similar fate in 1997 after the party had been in office for 18 years....
...“Sport fishing for big fish around the world is a very high-value activity,” said Tim Macpherson, of the UK Bluefin Tuna association....
...Lord Nick Macpherson, former permanent secretary at the Treasury, said: “I think the government has got to be careful about its rhetoric here. Public sector workers don’t create inflation.”...
...However, Britain should not accept its status as the ‘sick man of Europe’, according to former Treasury permanent secretary Nicholas Macpherson....
...The Treasury’s two permanent secretaries at the time of the banking crisis, Nicholas Macpherson and John Kingman, have both retired....
...tallest building on the island), it evolved through the 20th century on a wild up-and-down trajectory involving multiple ownership changes, famous tenants (among them Allen Ginsberg, Arthur Miller, Jasper Johns...
...Logan and other BPA members gave damning evidence to Macpherson’s inquiry, ordered after Tony Blair’s 1997 election victory....
...“We start from a position of trust,” said Macpherson....
...(Shannon Gallacher, who works with Nicola Clarke at John Frieda’s London salon, fought a champion battle to achieve the cool tone I wanted....
...Sir John Kay, one of the UK’s leading economists, says “market distortions set up by quantitative easing” have contributed to a long-term shift from public equity to private equity, which uses leverage to...
...Oil neared a 12-month high “buoyed by optimism over vaccine rollouts”, said Callum Macpherson, head of commodities at Investec....
...Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot: The Great Mistake of Scottish Independence, by John Lloyd, Polity, RRP£20, 214 pages Nicholas Macpherson, a former permanent secretary to the Treasury, is a visiting...
...In a letter recommending Mr Bercow’s appointment, Nick Macpherson, permanent secretary at the Treasury, wrote that Kenneth Clarke, then chancellor, had been impressed by his “intellectual grasp”....
...John McDonnell, shadow chancellor, said Mr Bailey was an “establishment figure with what some consider a less than inspiring record at the FCA”....
...John McDonnell, the UK shadow chancellor, looks like a grandfather from the shires and speaks in tones of gentle reasonableness....
...Nick Macpherson, former permanent secretary to the Treasury, tweeted: “Have the fiscal proposals of the two main parties ever been so incontinent?...
...In prime central London — which comprises districts such as Belgravia, Chelsea, Kensington and areas further out such as Islington and St John’s Wood — buyers in their 20s have made up 12 per cent of the...
...“My main advice to public servants, whether political or official, is to avoid self promotion and believing your own myth,” tweeted Nick Macpherson, the former head of the Treasury....
...Simon Clarke, a junior Treasury minister, rejected suggestions by shadow chancellor John McDonnell that the prime minister was personally exposed to a conflict of interest because hedge funds that have supported...
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