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...Conservative MPs is the government’s planning reform in England to boost housebuilding: they believe that relaxing restrictions will lose the Tories scores of seats, particularly in the prosperous home counties...
...The county of Yorkshire has several existing devolution deals, including combined authorities in South and West Yorkshire....
...Johnson and Zelenskyy also discussed security guarantees for Ukraine and efforts to rebuild the county following the invasion....
...Local government spending, often administered by Conservative-run county councils, has already been severely cut....
...george.parker@ft.com, sebastian.payne@ft.com...
...Because I think sometimes when it was Boris Johnson versus Jeremy Corbyn, I think you could say Jeremy Corbyn was roundly beaten by Boris Johnson with his sort of bluster and his usual way of doing things...
...But this is the landscape as it emerged after the December 2019 election at which Boris Johnson was triumphant....
...Is it better, worse or different from the Boris Johnson and previous Tory administration?...
...“I flew down to Arkansas really out of curiosity. I thought it might just be a one-day field trip,” she says....
...Miles Johnson had a fascinating investigation into Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner Group and its sanctions-evasion network in Africa and beyond....
...We analyse the results in London, the red wall, blue wall and beyond, plus what they mean for Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer....
...But if crime does not rapidly improve, it will be one of Johnson’s most vulnerable flanks — something that both he and Labour are well aware of. sebastian.payne@ft.com...
...The first marked outcome from the white paper is expected to be further devolution in England via the creation of several directly elected “county mayors”....
...The white paper invites nine English counties to apply for county devolution deals, including Cornwall and Durham. Some existing mayors will be offered further powers akin to those in London....
...county and its people....
...The paper pledged to create nine new county mayors in England by 2030 to drive efforts for boosting economic growth, increase state-funded research and development outside the south-east, improve digital...
...Johnson’s performative slobbery went rancid before his politics did....
...Ministers are examining plans to scrap many of England’s regional development bodies as part of the delayed policy paper that UK prime minister Boris Johnson hopes will deliver his “levelling up” agenda....
...It has proved politically difficult for Johnson, who is urging other nations at the UN COP26 climate summit to slash carbon emissions and end their use of coal....
...And Boris Johnson’s government, elected on a ticket of reviving “left-behind” areas of the country, wants to see more of them....
...One noted he was appearing on Monday evening at the Tory winter party at the V&A, as well as doing a speech in the City of London and attending a crucial House of Commons vote on the government’s social...
...But its MPs also cover some of the safest Tory seats in England’s home counties, such as Sevenoaks in Kent and Newbury in Berkshire....
...The Lib Dems finished third, but are stronger on the ground across the county....
...(Johnson would otherwise have faced the risk of a mutiny, particularly in the southern counties.)...
...First, Cumbria is poised to undergo local government reform, with its county and district councils replaced by two unitary authorities....
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