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...During the 19th century, the high water mark of the gold standard, the purchasing power of sterling increased by 48 per cent....
...A review by Baroness Louise Casey in March found the police force to be racist, sexist and homophobic, a characterisation that Sir Mark Rowley, the force’s chief, rejected....
...Responding to the review by Baroness Louise Casey that found Britain’s largest police force to be institutionally racist, sexist and homophobic, Sir Mark Rowley acknowledged that he had an immense task but...
...Macpherson is well qualified to write about rigs and environmental matters....
...As former BoE governor Mark Carney memorably put it, we rely on the kindness of strangers. But however kind those strangers are, they require a premium to buy bonds in a depreciating currency....
...Scotland Yard is now facing its biggest crisis since the Macpherson report exposed a force shot through with racism....
...Mark Spencer, fisheries minister, is considering creating a licensed recreational fishery, which would require a legal change....
...It marks the second time Johnson has recently resigned from a company board....
...“Macpherson was about how black boys are treated and how crimes against them are investigated,” the figure said. “Macpherson was: can black people trust the police?...
...“It was quite clear that if you take pressure off and allow the Met to mark their own homework . . . they’ll always gloss it over as, ‘We’re A1, A-star’,” he says....
...He went on to hold directorships of companies including NatWest and hedge fund GLG, to chair Marks and Spencer and to join the Bank of England’s Court of Directors....
...Macpherson said it was a “huge tribute” to officials that they did not ultimately give into pressure....
...Sir Robert Mark, commissioner of the Metropolitan Police from 1972 to 1977, wrote in 1978 that the CID of the Metropolitan Police was the most routinely corrupt organisation in London....
...Lord Mark Sedwill, the former head of the civil service, described the report as “authoritative” and said that all parts of the state should follow its recommendations....
...“This means it’s quite difficult to give up the share price pop that comes with a bid because it could be the difference between a good quarter and a bad quarter,” says Myners, who was chair of Marks and...
...Former Treasury permanent secretary Nick Macpherson has outlined a break with his old department’s opposition to hypothecated taxes by proposing a dedicated “social solidarity charge” to fund the NHS and...
...But when historians pass judgment on Mark Carney’s tenure as governor, last week’s nightmare on Threadneedle Street is unlikely to trump the bigger issues of how the central bank dealt with a weak economy...
...“Now that’s daunting,” says Mr MacPherson. “You’re not moving a mountain, you’re moving several mountains, so it can take a long time to do that.”...
...“My main advice to public servants, whether political or official, is to avoid self promotion and believing your own myth,” tweeted Nick Macpherson, the former head of the Treasury....
...Mr Bailey won the race to succeed Mark Carney and embark on an eight-year term at the helm of the BoE after a selection process that has dragged on for almost two years and been overshadowed by Brexit....
...He was not the frontrunner in the race to succeed Mark Sedwill, who was abruptly ousted as head of the civil service earlier in the summer after falling out with Downing Street....
...But Nick Macpherson, the former Treasury permanent secretary, held out less hope of substantive new thinking....
...Mark Francois, a vice-chairman of the ERG, said that while his members were “strong allies” of the DUP, it was “not axiomatic we will follow whatever the DUP do”....
...His move marks a significant departure from prime minister Theresa May’s tough approach on immigration, in which she resisted calls to lower minimum salary requirements on skilled-worker visas or introduce...
...Homes, such as that of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, become invisible....
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