Hints and tips:
...Grant Shapps, a senior cabinet minister, defended the Tory-dominated committee of MPs that is expected to condemn the behaviour of Johnson this week — insisting they should be allowed to “get on with their...
...If Arts Council England’s shock grant-cutting edict last autumn had been put fully into effect, English National Opera would have had to abandon its 2023-24 season and turn to scrabbling around for some...
...ENO’s annual grant of £12.7mn would disappear within five months, replaced by limited transitional funding....
...He was joined by two political acolytes, Nadine Dorries and Nigel Adams....
...“He is the one who’s removed himself from the current political scene,” Grant Shapps said yesterday, defending the work of the committee....
...In my time as chair we shifted both grant-in-aid and lottery funding by 10 per cent, without suddenly cutting off major institutions....
...chief executive Darren Henley — while calling ENO an “excellent organisation which does excellent work” — talked of receiving an “instruction from government”, in the person of the then secretary of state Nadine...
...A Freelands Foundation grant of £93,000 over two years was the “first funding of consequence” for the archive, which she insists is a collective endeavour, naming, among other collaborators, the director...
...Starmer was heckled by Johnson’s supporters, led by culture secretary Nadine Dorries, who repeatedly shouted “boring” at the Labour leader....
...It’s one of the reasons why someone like Grant Shapps is actually moderately plausible in that respect. Michael Gove is good at it, but he’s quite a divisive figure....
...Four days later, Nadine Dorries, the then newly appointed secretary of state for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, delisted the tower so it could be demolished....
...Earlier this year, the government announced a £37bn cost of living package, which included a £400 grant for all households to assist with energy bills....
...Conran and his foundation gave more than £75mn to the museum, though that funding has largely gone, bar a few small grants....
...The frontrunner in the campaign was joined by deputy prime minister Dominic Raab and transport secretary Grant Shapps, who have endorsed him....
...Nadine Dorries, former cabinet minister and a Truss backer, agreed, tweeting: “People voted in ‘19 on the policy promises we made (and for Boris)....
...They had no strategy for forcing the issue because it’s up to Westminster whether they grant the referendum and they couldn’t figure out a way to do it....
...Nadine Dorries, culture secretary and an ultra-loyalist, and Jacob Rees-Mogg, Brexit opportunities minister, are said by government officials to have urged Johnson to fight on....
...I’m going to pick Nadine Dorries as a sell, which I know is odd because she’s virtually a penny stock in political terms anyway....
...The UK prime minister’s allies had been insisting for days that rebel Tory MPs did not have the numbers to force a vote of no confidence in him; Grant Shapps, Johnson’s loyal transport secretary, said in...
...A group of Johnson loyalists — including Grant Shapps, transport secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng, business secretary, and Brandon Lewis, Northern Ireland secretary — planned to urge Johnson to quit before he faced...
...French voters have also tended to grant newly elected presidents the capacity to implement their programme....
...As soon as she saw the devastation, the museum’s curator, Nadine Panayot, resolved to salvage as many artefacts as she could....
...When Nadine Dorries, culture secretary, tried to defend Johnson as a “hero” she was immediately removed from the group....
...Throughout the meetings, culture secretary and Johnson loyalist-to-the-end Nadine Dorries was ever-present in the corridors of Number 10, together with Johnson’s policy chief Andrew Griffith, drumming up...
...But on the supply side of reforms, if you a backbench Tory MP like Grant Shapps or Michael Gove or Mel Stride, who’ve all been out and about campaigning against what Liz Truss has been doing....
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