Hints and tips:
...He was blocked for promotion for years because he defied George Osborne by opposing an elected House of Lords (on the understandable grounds that it would create gridlock with the Commons)....
...When Rishi Sunak was embarrassed into attending COP27, he talked of the UK’s climate leadership and boasted of the UK’s climate finance going to Kenya....
...It has also launched a formal sale process to get rid of its operations in Kenya....
...Later, one of his companies set up an educational charity for HIV orphans in Kenya. Mr Hunt lists “Japan, Brazil, Kenya” as countries of interest, and his wife, Lucia Guo, is Chinese....
...He recalls inviting David Cameron and George Osborne to lunch in 2005, as the Tories were regrouping after another Tony Blair election victory....
...Dowd in the New York Times There might be one good thing about a hard Brexit after all — Anne Applebaum in the Washington Post After Victory in Raqqa — The Wall Street Journal editorial board George Osborne...
...The UK’s contribution is a wall papered in a nauseating floral design courtesy of Osborne and Little. Behind the room is a vertical blind in the extruded colours of every EU flag....
...In his Budget on July 8, George Osborne announced important changes to the taxation of non-UK domiciliaries, to take effect from April 2017....
...In addition, she abandoned a scheme for a £3,000 bond for visitors from India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Kenya, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh....
...You may recall that in 2011 George Osborne promised to reverse a tax hike on North Sea drillers if oil fell below $75 per barrel....
...Osborne & Little and Marks and Spencer....
...But the plan to impose a £3,000 cash bond on visitors from India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Kenya, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh had attracted widespread opposition....
...There was an international outcry in June when it emerged that the government was planning to ask some visitors from India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Kenya, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh to pay a £3,000 cash bond in...
...But in Kenya, the money stayed in the private sector and coffee farmers saved the money, having deduced that coffee prices wouldn’t stay high forever. Sounds great....
...(Financial Times) UK chancellor Osborne claims austerity victory, dismissing Labour’s argument that deficit reduction was hurting the economy excessively, saying that the opposition could not explain why...
...(Financial Times) Kenyan election set for tight finish: Kenya’s tense presidential election was heading for a nail-biting finish on Friday with Uhuru Kenyatta maintaining a lead as civil society activists...
...Manufacturing indicators, CPI, and a few MPC minutes this week; Osborne in India; plus Asean foreign ministers meet in Phnom Penh....
...His time in Kenya and later India confirmed his belief that free trade and labour mobility bring benefits to all....
...Della: It’s a very timely day to ask about job prospects in the UK, Pradhumna, as the Chancellor George Osborne has just announced growth forecasts for the next few years, and they are down on previous predictions...
...Given the ferocity of lobbying against even modest reforms, George Osborne, the chancellor, and Vince Cable, the business secretary, should now consider alternatives....
...Osborne’s literary treatment of Kenya’s native population is in general awkward, restricted to a few stiffly offered Swahili words and a token pat on the head....
...We have spinelessly allowed him in even though Kenya has just declared Sir Edward Clay, our former high commissioner to Kenya, persona non grata....
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