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...Geoff DyerHead of Longform Lancashire The ParkerS Arms, Newton-In-Bowland Every November, The Parkers Arms goes into a month-long hibernation....
...Zahawi said in a statement: “I am confident I acted properly throughout and look forward to answering any and all specific questions in a formal setting to Sir Laurie.”...
...The Number 10 ethics adviser Sir Laurie Magnus found that Zahawi had breached the ministerial code seven times in his handling of an estimated £5mn settlement with HM Revenue & Customs....
...Slad’s Woolpack Inn has been the heart of the local community since before the author Laurie Lee, who recounted his idyllic childhood in Slad in the novel Cider with Rosie, was a regular....
...Downing Street said Sunak hoped that Sir Laurie Magnus, the prime minister’s independent ethics adviser, could conclude his report into the affair “as swiftly as possible”....
...Sunak has now asked his ethics adviser, Sir Laurie Magnus, to “get to the bottom” of Zahawi’s tax affairs....
...After seven years with the old Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet he switched to contemporary dance, performing with DV8, Michael Clark and the great Laurie Booth, master of “structured improvisation”....
...Zahawi as education secretary in October 2021 and as chancellor in July 2022, but on neither occasion did the former minister declare he was subject to a tax probe by HM Revenue & Customs, according to Sir Laurie...
...He added Sunak’s decision to refer Zahawi to his independent ethics adviser, Sir Laurie Magnus, smacked of hesitation. “Flapping around doesn’t work,” he said....
...And the problem with the Nadhim Zahawi case, of course, is that this could drag on for weeks depending on how quickly Sir Laurie Magnus, the new ethics adviser, does his work....
...He was present at the age of 17, for example, at a three-day convention in 1978 honouring the writer William S Burroughs, which featured performances by Laurie Anderson, Blondie, John Cage, Philip Glass...
...“It is eyebrow raising that this information is not being enthusiastically disclosed,” said Laurie Styron, executive director at US-based watchdog CharityWatch....
...Additional reporting by George Parker in London...
...Laura Conduit is a partner at Farrer & Co LLP Pigeon v parker I live in west London in a house with no off-street parking....
...The motorway heads inexorably for the wall of the Sierra Morena, described by Laurie Lee as an “east-west rampart” dividing people into different races....
...Bates’s celebration of Charlie Parker, Beloved Bird, a stand-out last year, was presented on Sunday afternoon....
...Laurie Davison, analyst at Goldman Sachs, said BSkyB’s wholesale fees represented 4 per cent of revenues....
...Laurie Martin, an engineer, also believes Labour will lose the constituency, which neighbours the prime minister’s own . “I’m worried about the state of the economy....
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