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...As one of his students cannily observes, he likes to think that he’s “one of the good guys”, a different, loftier breed than the corruption-tainted, privileged folk with whom he rubs shoulders....
...How is this guy and how was this operation going to hold up during an election campaign?...
...Lucy FisherSo they obviously think that might be canny politics. But Jim, isn’t the flip side that Labour can say, well, look, you know, these guys are so out of ideas....
...Additional reporting by Javier Espinoza and Laura Dubois in Brussels, Felicia Schwartz in Washington and Lucy Fisher in London...
...Machiavelli had nothing on this guy. (Miranda laughs) Lucy FisherOK. We’ve gotta come back to Lee in another episode....
...Miranda GreenHello, Lucy. Lucy FisherAnd the FT’s Stephen Bush. Hello, Stephen. Stephen BushHi, Lucy....
...Miranda GreenHello, Lucy. Lucy FisherAnd Stephen Bush. Hi, Stephen. Stephen BushHi, Lucy....
...Significantly for the drama, Louis’s birth has opened up unresolved feelings about Ash’s babyhood relationship with Jane (Lucy Black), who appears to have suffered from serious postnatal depression....
...Look after yourselves, guys. Whether that means formally pulling out of Nato, one doesn’t know....
...He’s a very serious-minded, intelligent guy who I wouldn’t be surprised if he was in the shadow cabinet or the actual cabinet pretty soon. Lucy FisherOK. He’s won you over. Miranda?...
...a trickle of stories in the Telegraph about Starmer’s record as DPP and the kinds of bad guys he helped defend when he was a defence barrister before that....
...Mister, Mister by Guy Gunaratne, Tinder Press £20/Knopf Doubleday, 384 pages...
...Additional reporting by Lucy Fisher in London and Kana Inagaki in Okinawa...
...Marc Filippino Lucy Fisher is the FT’s Whitehall editor. Thanks so much, Lucy. Lucy Fisher Thanks, Marc....
...Anna GrossHi, Lucy. Lucy FisherAnd the FT’s Stephen Bush. Hi, Stephen. Stephen BushHi, Lucy....
...I have no solutions for the guy at all....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] Lucy FisherSo we’ve resurfaced in London, guys, after two northern cities and two four-day conferences spent in sweaty rooms with party apparatchiks....
...Additional reporting by Lucy Fisher in London...
...Robert ShrimsleyHey, Lucy. Lucy FisherAnd the FT’s George Parker. Hi, George. George ParkerHi, Lucy....
...It’s all very well for Iain Duncan Smith and the other China hawks in the Tory party to say, right, this guy’s been spying, break off all links with China....
...And what he’s sort of saying is I’m the guy who does the practical. I’m the prime minister who says we only do things once, we can make them work....
...Robert ShrimsleyHey, Lucy. Lucy FisherAnd Stephen Bush. Hi, Stephen. Stephen BushHi, Lucy. [MUSIC PLAYING] Lucy FisherFirst off the marks, then. What’s been on your mind this week, Robert?...
...And so instead you have a China policy, which is basically mumble, mumble, mumble, guys, we don’t think that we can change any of the things you don’t like so maybe we should just focus on economic ties....
...The deal is being held up after culture secretary Lucy Frazer announced a review because of concerns the newspaper would be under the control of Abu Dhabi, which has a poor record on press freedom....
...Lucy Kellaway FT contributing editor and co-founder of Now Teach In the photograph I am sitting on a low wall wearing shorts and looking sunburned....
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