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...Some parts of Plan B would be retained, she said....
...stephen.bush@ft.com...
...Taxpayers pick up £15,000 bill | Taxpayers funded a £15,000 settlement in the libel case brought by a university academic falsely accused by science secretary Michelle Donelan of supporting or sympathising...
...b) The majority she had inherited was too small to deliver Brexit. c) Any election in which the Labour party was led by Jeremy Corbyn was a massive gimme....
...The Labour leadership is obsessed with demonstrating a), while the Conservative leadership appears to have put very little thought into how to go about avoiding b). If anything, quite the reverse....
...Donelan pays damages after libel action | Secretary of state for science Michelle Donelan has retracted and paid an undisclosed sum over claims that an adviser to a leading UK scientific research body had...
...Stephen Bush In public spending, right?...
Tory party’s Plan B to sway the electorate involves attacking Labour’s spending plans
...So I think the problem with levelling up is A, it hasn’t delivered much but B, it’s so linked with those other issues: crime and also the cost of living, right?...
...House linked to Baroness Mone’s husband on sale | A townhouse in London’s Belgravia owned by a company linked to the husband of Tory peer Baroness Michelle Mone is on sale for £25mn, weeks after the lingerie...
...These tax policies meant that Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves could say that Labour’s various spending pledges were both a) fully funded and b) wouldn’t involve touching the politically contentious taxes,...
...The depth of support for these policies on the opposition benches is one reason why they will a) pass into law and b) come with the risk of a large Tory rebellion....
...Signal failure The reason why computers are — or at least, are to me — an exciting tool in public policy is that we a) know that computers make mistakes and b) it is possible to understand, eventually,...
...I continue to think that a spring election is a) in the interests of the Conservative party and b) very unlikely for a number of reasons....
...But the golden thread that links everything it is planning to do is that a) it costs nothing and b) it sounds more impressive than it is....
...Paperless problem: Digital technology has proven fantastic for the sharing of information but far less useful in preserving it for archival or public use, writes Stephen Bush....
...on the grounds that a) the upward pressures on UK public spending, from our ageing population to the industrial disputes across the public realm to the darkening geopolitical picture are not going away b)...
...Top stories today Sunak distances himself from Mone | Rishi Sunak has become embroiled in a row with Michelle Mone, a Conservative peer, over her role in a medical equipment company that won more than £200mn...
...Admission after years of denials | The Conservative peer Michelle Mone has acknowledged for the first time that she was involved with a company that was awarded government PPE contracts worth £200mn during...
...All in all, it’s as if Oppenheimer were made a) without any mention of the Manhattan project and b) by someone who thought the most important things about J Robert Oppenheimer were that he slept around and...
...Emma Jacobs is work and careers writer at the FT and Stephen Bush is an FT columnist and associate editor....
...The Tory right aren’t buying Sunak’s plan B, are they?...
...We’ve had the sheer brass neck of Michelle Mone, the Tory peer who’s admitted to lying repeatedly to the press. That’s kept some of us bystanders agog....
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