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...It is fair to say that Judge Neville was not overly impressed by Payne’s performance....
...Even higher-quality companies are getting shut out, with single-B and single-B minus rated loan issuance in the US down more than 70 per cent from 2021 levels....
...Many of Pommellet’s interlocutors were not themselves in the know about the secret plan B, an Australian defence official said....
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...So I think the problem with levelling up is A, it hasn’t delivered much but B, it’s so linked with those other issues: crime and also the cost of living, right?...
...Lobb collected a £25,000 cheque from Cynthia Payne — that’s Madame Payne, who ran a famous brothel in Streatham during the 1970s, where she took payment in Luncheon Vouchers....
...Chris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers, which represents hospital, ambulance, mental health and community services, welcomed Plan B while conceding the fresh rules would come as a disappointment...
...UK prime minister Boris Johnson introduced his so-called plan B measures last month as the new strain spread rapidly across the UK....
...“We have got Plan B — that’s what we think is required over the Christmas period.” But Raab also insisted last week that Plan B was unnecessary, just 24 hours before Johnson activated it....
...Johnson entered the room facing a huge Conservative rebellion over his “Plan B” package of measures for England to tackle the fast-spreading new coronavirus variant....
...Now try this As I am a) an only child and b) extremely grouchy, there comes a time during party conference season when I suddenly find myself craving my own company....
...England’s so-called Plan B measures — including working from home guidance and Covid vaccine passports for mass events — expire on January 26 and Whitehall officials are increasingly confident the restrictions...
...I reckon there’s a less than 20 per cent chance we’ll need to activate Plan B.”...
...Three senior Whitehall officials told the Financial Times that the government had decided to implement “Plan B” of further restrictions, including vaccine passports for large venues and an order to work...
...Plan B could be adapted to cope with new variants, he added....
...Johnson won a series of votes on his “Plan B” to tackle Covid — mask-wearing, work from home guidance and a requirement for a negative test or vaccine certificate to enter mass events — but only thanks to...
...Meanwhile Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said in a televised address that his party would support the government’s Plan B measures....
...Colleagues of Rees-Mogg said he was also “increasingly unhappy” at the direction of government policy, including over Plan B Covid-19 restrictions introduced in December, featuring vaccine passports....
...Johnson’s weakened leadership — about 100 Conservative MPs last week voted against his latest round of Covid restrictions for England dubbed plan B — has compounded the cabinet tensions, according to Tory...
...As George Parker and Seb Payne report in their essential piece on the state of the Tory party, few Conservatives believe that it will be politically tenable to avoid a proper leadership election involving...
...At least 30 Tory MPs have expressed public dismay at Johnson’s so-called plan B restrictions for England to counter the new Omicron variant of coronavirus, including vaccine passports and work from home...
...“We don’t think Plan B is required,” Dominic Raab, deputy prime minister, said on Tuesday. Johnson’s allies said on Sunday they did not expect new restrictions until January....
...Sajid Javid, health secretary, was heckled by Conservative MPs when he outlined the move to the so-called Plan B restrictions — a package of measures that also requires more masks in public places and guidance...
...Projections by the government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies have indicated daily hospitalisations in England could rise to at least 3,000 by February under ministers’ existing so-called Plan B...
...B (stagflation): high-quality, dividend-paying staples stocks for relative price stability and a little return....
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