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...Mark Dixon, chief executive of the largest flexible office space company, IWG, argues “the travails and tribulations with WeWork” have been a “sideshow” to a huge shift in the office market....
...Mark Haffenden of agent Batcheller Monkhouse says with mortgage rates falling slightly, after they reached a 15-year high this summer, he is seeing some first-time buyers enter the market....
...Former Lib Dem leader Paddy Ashdown had the penny increase in income tax. Charlie Kennedy had the Iraq war. Nick Clegg had tuition fees, which worked well until it really, really didn’t....
...And I do think there is the slight question mark over that left flank....
...It was defined by careful political choreography to mark the anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement....
...David Laws, a former Lib Dem cabinet minister, recalls the party leader of the time, Paddy Ashdown, muttering: “If this goes through, the party’s finished....
...The party succeeds when it has a charismatic leader who can make his or her mark on the issue of the day....
...Meanwhile Master of Ceremonies Niall Ashdown struggles, drolly, to maintain some sort of decorum. But there’s method in this madness....
...Paddy Ashdown, former diplomat and ex-leader of the Liberal Democrats, says Britain should be speaking out on the abuse its colonial-era laws in places like Hong Kong....
...Victory would mark the death throes of the centrist New Labour, which governed the UK for 13 years....
...This marks a significant increase from previous years. Most of the officials are from the UK Border Force, which handles immigration....
...William, Second Earl of Craven, made tree studies close to home on his estate, Ashdown Park, using a custom-built horse-drawn van that acted as both a camera and a darkroom....
...Personal revelations — “I never showed her [my mother] the marks the beatings made....
...Fox Lord Goddard of Stockport Lord Greaves Baroness Harris of Richmond Baroness Jolly Lord Jones of Cheltenham Lord Lee of Trafford Lord Lester of Herne Hill Lord Liddle Baroness Maddock Lord Marks...
...It will include Mr Tusk, Dutch premier Mark Rutte and Martin Schulz, the European parliament president....
...Mark Wallace, executive editor of the influential ConservativeHome website, called for Baroness Altmann to be sacked....
...Paddy Ashdown likes to remind his party that he became leader in 1988 when the Lib Dems were polling within the margin of error of zero. On Friday he urged them to pull together....
...Lord Rose, the former Marks & Spencer chief executive who is to chair the campaign, said it was “nonsense” to suggest it was in some way unpatriotic to campaign for Britain to stay in the union....
...The Lib Dem leader, who in March gave the coalition a mark of “2 out of 10”, said the party’s tenure in government showed that it was comprised of “serious people . . . serous about taking power”, adding...
...Chilcompton — a former mining village on the Somerset coalfield — she is visiting the local church that has just been handed almost £80,000 by chancellor George Osborne to have the roof fixed, an occasion she marks...
...Principles and power conflict as Paddy Ashdown (Donald Sumpter) alternates between elder statesman and skeleton at the feast....
...If enough of us put our mark there, perhaps things might begin to change (though I wouldn’t hold your breath)....
...Lord Ashdown, former leader of the Liberal Democrats – the Conservatives’ coalition partner – also criticised the speech....
...Mark Ashdown, chief executive of Cognatel, said: “When everywhere you look at the moment there are adverts for 4G technology, this is just a good, old fashioned voice service....
...Clegg’s friends insist that the deputy leader “will come back, but he will come back as someone different”: Clegg Mark II will be sold as a leader who has been through the fire and done what was right for...
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