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...Launched less than two years ago and backed by former Downing Street adviser Dominic Cummings, the unit was intended to provide strategic advice and to train public sector staff....
...The best spy novelists, such David McCloskey and Charles Cumming — and Ian Fleming himself — deepen our understanding of the world while telling an enthralling story. Sherwood is not quite there yet....
...In December 2020, weeks before England entered a third national lockdown, Vallance wrote: “Chief whip [Mark Spencer] says ‘I think we should let the old people get it and protect others’....
...In response, Sedwill said: “I have the bite marks.”...
...In a message shown to the inquiry, Hancock told Sir Mark Sedwill, cabinet secretary between 2018 and 2020, that the scheme was causing “serious” problems and argued “very strongly” against extending it....
...Last month, the inquiry heard that Lord Mark Sedwill, Case’s predecessor as cabinet secretary, urged Johnson to remove Hancock in 2020....
...Now, after a decade of cultural and ideological change, she looms in the conversation, standing out as a mark of all we once ignored....
...They were right to worry; it washed away seven permanent secretaries, including the cabinet secretary who preceded Case, Mark Sedwill. Case and Sedwill described Team Johnson as “wild animals”....
...If there is anyone who knows how to destroy the Conservative party it is Dominic Cummings....
...On Thursday, the inquiry was also shown an exchange in which Britain’s former top civil servant Lord Mark Sedwill compared Covid-19 to chickenpox....
...Twice in a decade, British politics was in the partial grip of advisers — Steve Hilton, then Dominic Cummings — whose unusual behaviour was interpreted as proof of genius....
...Lord Mark Sedwill, Britain’s former top civil servant, urged Johnson to remove Hancock as health secretary during the pandemic, the inquiry heard....
...Cummings’ largesse helped make the Barclay family the largest single-client exposure among the roughly £200bn of problematic HBOS loans inherited by Lloyds in 2008....
...In a message to Sir Mark Sedwill, cabinet secretary between 2018 and 2020, Hancock warned the scheme was causing “serious” problems and argued “very strongly” against extending it....
...Mark Harper, transport secretary, blamed “headwinds from inflation” for the decision....
...You know, these terrible WhatsApp messages are read out and Cummings will then say, well, yes, I mean, I may have said that about Mark Sedwill, cabinet secretary, but, you know, he’s a really talented diplomat...
...The removal of cabinet secretary Sir Mark Sedwill did nothing to advance the often accurate critique of Whitehall made by Johnson’s former chief adviser Dominic Cummings....
...Divergence would double the workload of businesses, as well the ludicrous attempt to replace the EU’s long-established ‘CE’ safety mark on industrial and electrical goods with a rival mark called UKCA —...
...“Apprenticeships are great if you can get one,” said Susie Cummings, founder of Nurole, a board recruitment platform. “What’s difficult is getting boards to agree to take one on.”...
...Key to this is the testimony of the real man behind the myth, Brian MacKinnon, who now talks to camera but is never seen, his words lip-synced instead by Alan Cumming....
...Dominic Cummings, Johnson’s former chief adviser, was instrumental in bringing Case in. At the age of 41, he had held a range of roles in Whitehall and had been Prince William’s private secretary....
...Private markets reckoning For now, a question mark is hanging over the fair value of the unquoted assets....
...Meanwhile, leading UK fund managers, including Richard Buxton at Jupiter and David Cumming at Newton Investment Management, are calling for changes to the accounting framework that requires companies to...
...“The events of 20 May alone, never mind the string of other events, mean the PM lied to parliament about parties,” Cummings wrote....
...Yes, she will be able to say that she held out under pressure for far longer than Boris Johnson did over Dominic Cummings’ lockdown breach or Theresa May did over her social care policy....
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