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...In recent years, some senior politicians, such as the former Conservative minister, Francis Maude, have argued for this to be tried again. But, beware such siren calls....
...Other champions include Cara Delevingne, co-owner of award-winning sex-tech company Lora DiCarlo, and actress Dakota Johnson, an investor in Brooklyn-based Maude....
...It follows a drive by the Johnson government to reform and reduce the size of the civil service as part of cost-cutting measures in the wake of the pandemic....
...Mr Hammond quit politics ahead of December’s general election after falling out with Prime Minister Boris Johnson over Brexit....
...The moves to bring in outsiders to shake up what was seen as an inefficient and obstructionist Whitehall were led by Francis Maude, a cabinet office minister under Cameron....
...Four senior Tories — Andrew Mitchell, David Davis, Lord Maude of Horsham and Lord Deben — were joined by Vince Cable, the former Liberal Democrat business secretary, arguing that “the British legal system...
...Lord Maude’s review will focus on the “efficiency” and “effectiveness” of the Cabinet Office, according to officials briefed on the work....
...Boris Johnson’s government is quietly working on creating its own in-house consultancy arm — dubbed “Crown Consultancy” — to cut its dependence on high-charging private sector firms....
...Mr Johnson wants to take this further by creating, in effect, a new prime minister’s department. The Tory grandee Francis Maude has been asked to review the effectiveness of the Cabinet Office....
...Recently, I have been inspired by a photograph of Maude Smith’s bathroom in her Victorian townhouse in Stockwell, south London....
...It was Francis Maude, who's the former cabinet office minister, who's now Lord Maude, and came out to say that we've still got a deficit to close....
...US sales of Johnson & Johnson baby products, including its famous “no more tears” shampoo and bedtime lotion for children, fell 14 per cent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2016....
...The opposition, under the banner of the “Gatwick Co-ordination Group”, includes six Conservative MPs, and is informally backed by Francis Maude, Cabinet Office minister....
...Francis Maude, Cabinet Office minister, told the Commons: “This is the fourth one-day public sector strike in the last few years....
...Boris Johnson, London’s mayor, is lobbying the Treasury to be given control over land owned by public bodies such as the NHS and councils....
...The appointment last year of Jo Johnson, the Tory MP for Orpington and a former Financial Times journalist, to head a new political strategy unit to devise policies for the general election manifesto was...
...Melinda Johnson, a well-regarded figure in industry, was recently appointed the department’s group procurement director....
...Francis Maude, Cabinet Office minister, defended the spending to ITV’s Daybreak programme, saying it would cost “much, much less”....
...When he was elected mayor of London, Boris Johnson retained Ken Livingstone’s key Olympics adviser....
...Supported at every turn by Graham Johnson, this favourite singer sounds at the peak of her considerable powers. Alice Coote The Power of Love: An English Songbook (Hyperion)...
...Some Tories including Boris Johnson, London mayor, have called for new laws requiring a 50 per cent turnout to validate a strike call, something which so far only the headteachers’ union has achieved in...
...He does not elaborate, but Tories including Boris Johnson, the London mayor, have called for a minimum 50 per cent ballot turnout threshold to prove that union members – especially in the public sector –...
...I’m told that Vince is ambivalent, and less emollient towards the unions than other (Tory) ministers such as Oliver Letwin and Francis Maude....
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