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...Douglas Hurd, the foreign secretary, ordered an investigation. Far from being an example of EU over-reach, the directive had been a British initiative....
...Philip Stephens is the FT’s chief political commentator....
...Intelligence is an area where, in the phrase of a former foreign secretary, Douglas Hurd, the country punches above its weight in the world....
...Dan Hurd, joint administrator, said EY had received “a number of offers” for the company....
...philip.stephens@ft.com Letter in response to this column: Welcome to the realities of playing by others’ rules / From T R Murphy, Bethesda, MD, US...
...Sebastian Payne is the FT’s political leader writer Of the other living foreign secretaries, Douglas Hurd (1989-1995) and John Major (July-October 1989) were unavailable for interview and Philip Hammond...
...philip.stephens@ft.com Letter in response to this article: Tactic may not work in an egg-shaped building / From Jan Grauls, Ambassador (Rtd), Kraainem, Belgium...
...Philip Hammond, the UK chancellor, told Bloomberg Television that if a softer dollar helps to make Americans feel the global trading system is fairer to them “that is a good thing for all of us”....
...Sir, Further to Philip Stephens’ column “How not to negotiate Brexit — a user’s guide” (March 10): as UK foreign secretary Douglas Hurd did indeed produce a ministerial guide to negotiating in Brussels....
...Douglas Hurd, the then foreign secretary, ordered an inquiry....
...Nick Hurd, policing and fire minister, said 65 people had been rescued by emergency services and 28 were in a critical condition....
...The big story is not so much the lack of free float but who owns the non-free float pieces,” says Matt Hurd, an Australian-based consultant and former trader with experience in Chinese markets....
...Philip Hammond, defence secretary, was expected to be named as Mr Hague’s successor....
...David Cameron has carried out a sweeping reshuffle to put his party on election footing, promoting the eurosceptic Philip Hammond to foreign secretary, elevating a number of women ministers and demoting...
...“The world’s fastest switching device is just the beginning,” Mr Hurd said....
...“We don’t see anything in the market that really scares us,” said Matt Hurd, the group’s founder and a former trader. “We don’t think [HFT] is going away. It has a certain life cycle.”...
...But Philip Stephens sees the world differently (“The euro crisis: some dos and don’ts for Cameron”, December 6). He advises that Britain should display “unaccustomed humility”....
...Gordon Bonnyman (Letters, December 8) in response to Philip Stephens’s eminently well-reasoned viewpoint on Europe (“The euro crisis: the dos and don’ts for Cameron”), or the bellicose threats uttered by...
...If, once the hullabaloo of his firing fades, Mr Hurd can succeed in the very different setting at Oracle, he will have joined an extremely small executive super-group. philip@philipdelvesbroughton.com...
...A month after he was pushed out of Hewlett-Packard, we still don’t really know why, writes Philip Delves Broughton....
...Mr Lidington, a former special adviser to Douglas Hurd, is seen as being on the more conciliatory wing of the Tory party in terms of relations with Europe....
...Philip Stephens is an FT columnist...
...Mark Hurd, HP’s current chief executive, said: “He was a natural leader who was enormously well liked....
...STORIES: The Thoroughly Modern Collection CSA Word ₤13.61 Short stories often fail to get the appreciation they deserve, so this collection of 23 unabridged titles, by writers such as Fay Weldon, Douglas Hurd...
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