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...One senior council official in a deprived northern area says that his authority’s bid to the first round of the levelling up fund in 2021 was more like a “thesis”, totalling more than 30,000 words, which...
...The asylum claims will be processed by Italian officials while applicants are confined to the centres in Albania, and those whose claims are rejected will be held until they are repatriated to their home...
...Intel is to receive $8.5bn in direct funding and $11bn in loans from the US government to expand its capacity to make high-end chips, as it seeks to reinvent itself as a national champion....
...Rishi Sunak had a moment of reprieve from the brewing rebellion facing his controversial Rwanda bill yesterday, as he gave his much anticipated evidence to the official Covid-19 inquiry....
...A week ago, I’d have bet that Matt Hancock would never occupy my brain again for more than 15 seconds. But he’s back, against my will and indeed his own....
...Nearly 20,000 Covid-linked deaths in care homes in England and Wales were registered in the first three months of the pandemic, according to official data, leading to heavy criticism of the government of...
...“You just don’t have the same capacity.”...
...A test and trace official perceived this as “Baroness Mone lobbying on behalf of Medpro” and told us: “it riled me no end”....
...This summer, Dylan, a 22-year-old trainee lawyer from the Jersey Shore, decided to come clean to his family and friends about a shameful secret: he had borrowed and gambled $50,000 in just over a year....
...While some focus groups have described him as “boring”, “bland” and “weak”, he has been ruthless in his efforts to remould the party in his own image....
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...The department is now investigating Southwest over its wave of cancellations to establish whether the airline engaged in “unfair and deceptive practice” by selling flights it did not have the capacity to...
...This week, the group urged government officials to “work together in bringing an immediate end to the current blockades”....
...and that health secretary Matt Hancock should have been “sacked for lying”....
...Lilah RaptopoulosAs regular listeners and wine fans know, Jancis Robinson is the FT’s official wine critic and also among the most influential wine experts in the world....
...It remains to be seen if he throws his hat in the ring, and the country’s finance ministry didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment....
...Check out, for example, a lively debate that I participated in with him last year; or his trenchant analysis into companies’ participation in the Business Roundtable’s 2019 “stakeholder” pledge — which shows...
...UK prime minister Boris Johnson referred to the inability of his health secretary, Matt Hancock, to increase coronavirus testing capacity at the start of the pandemic as “totally fucking hopeless”, according...
...(Ethan Wu) One good read Elsewhere in the FT, Alphaville’s Jemima Kelly takes Matt Damon to task for his crypto shilling....
...EU capacity in such a fast-expanding new field would be part of a transition to a green economy....
...This led him to conclude: “A 15th-century gold bug who’d stored all his wealth in bullion, bequeathed it to his children and required them to do the same would be more than a little miffed when gazing down...
...Matt Whittaker: Further tax rises may well be required in 2023, but not as a down payment on government borrowing or national debt but rather in order to prop up public services capacity and potentially...
...“Each day we can see better what’s happening in the hotspots and that will guide us on the big decisions ahead,” one senior official said. “We’ll know more about transmissibility next week.”...
...To this end Johnson is lucky in his enemies....
...services and testing capacity....
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