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...Sir Jim Ratcliffe climbs into what feels like an old Land Rover Defender, but isn’t. “This is your Grenadier?”...
...And he has stepped down claiming that he’d only ever been a member in order to try to overturn its all-male policy from within....
...Jim PickardSo I’m gonna pick Melanie Onn and Mary Creagh....
...Jim PickardDead and alive at the same time and they’d almost become a laughingstock....
...Jim, who are you buying or selling? Jim Pickard I’m selling George Galloway. No disrespect, of course. It’s George. It’s just that you should always sell when stocks are at the top....
...I don’t feel uncomfortable now because I’m giving it all away.” He too has not denied that by polling day he will have given £5mn to Labour....
...Jim PickardYeah, and I’ve seen the number of 29 rebels is what is needed for this to not go through, presuming that if the other parties oppose it, which he’d expected them to....
...“I’d be very clear that a vote for Reform or any other party which is not Conservative is a vote for [Labour leader] Keir Starmer as prime minister,” she said....
...“Everywhere you look in Saudi Arabia, you can see growth and progress and I’m excited to be part of that,” Nadal said....
...“I’d been looking to commit to a perspective,” Glazer says of the film’s genesis, before carefully correcting himself, a frequent habit. “No, that’s not true....
...In a poor start to my last year of £5 tickets, my regular D&D group conflicts with this very good-looking concert by the Nash Ensemble next week....
...I’m not downplaying the fact that Jim can take $2bn or $3bn out of the market with a high degree of certainty every year. To be clear, I would trade with him....
...It gave me faith in humanity – and the strength not to recoil when I’m afraid. My style icon at the moment is Jim Carrey in Ace Ventura....
...I’m very content that I did that for her. But it’s impossible for me to perform live. I’m tearing up now, even talking about it. It’s the hardest thing to have to let go.”...
...“I’m not fully convinced by Labour, I’m not sure they’d know what to do if they get in,” he added....
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...And if there’s a promotion coming up, I should get it rather than Jim....
...I’ve seated him next to Jim Henson because I think they’ll get on....
...Jim PickardSo the original answer I’d give you is that he’s pointing out that the ban on petrol and diesel cars is not that dissimilar to other western nations....
...BNY Mellon has once again resisted the temptation to work in a Boney M reference. Schroders is banging on about a “3D reset” again....
...And to discuss that, I’m joined in the studio by my FT colleague, Jim Pickard. Hi, Jim. Jim PickardHi. Lucy FisherAnd FT columnist Stephen Bush. Hi, Stephen. Stephen BushHi, Lucy....
...(Lucy laughs) So I’m just gonna buy back some of that. Lucy FisherGreat! Jim?...
...“That is a cliché,” she replied immediately, showing less interest than I’d hoped in my exciting midlife crisis....
...So I just I’m going to buy shares in him. I think he’s one to watch. Lucy Fisher Robert, Jim, thanks for joining me. And that’s it for this episode of the FT’s Political Fix....
...Hi, I’m Katie Martin, the FT’s markets columnist, and I’m looking after this newsletter for a couple of weeks while Harriet Agnew is topping up her vitamin D levels on holiday, the lucky duck....
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