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...The UK government has U-turned on plans to call an election in Northern Ireland before Christmas after recognising that a fresh vote will not end months of political deadlock in the region....
...In 2021, Nike and H&M were forced to U-turn from earlier decisions to stop sourcing cotton from Xinjiang, due to widespread boycotts....
...This is an audio transcript of the Political Fix podcast episode: ‘Is Rishi Sunak’s net zero U-turn a vote-winner?’...
...Delors maintained a prodigious work rate and demanded no less of his commission colleagues....
...Therefore, unfortunately, when Moscow reduces its involvement in these regions the effects on the local populations are often tragic and run counter to the supposed foundations of the “rules-based...
...“The point of bathing water status is to force authorities to inform the public so they decide whether their kids can or can’t paddle and play around the rivers,” said Becky Maltby, a member of a local campaign...
...“Therefore I no longer consider it necessary to rush to introduce the new . . . standard,” he said in a statement....
...The move comes after the Hungarian-born 93-year-old investor in December handed over the reins of his global organisation to his son Alex Soros. In June, OSF announced a 40 per cent staff reduction....
...NHS pay deal | The government will implement a 5% wage rise for NHS England workers despite opposition from RCN and Unite unions....
...Rather than siphoning off water from aquifers, it will circulate water through a U-shaped well, allowing it to be heated naturally by the rock deep underground and brought back to the surface in a “closed...
...The flip side of that is in both of these cases where you have U-turns or potential U-turns that carry quite a lot of political risks, right?...
...A government that once disliked the sale of cigarettes so much it mandated they be sold in plain packages now dislikes them so much that it thinks no one born after 2009 should ever, ever have the choice...
...from the British Retail Consortium and Local Data Company....
...Stephen BushIn terms of the actual letter of the policy, it’s correct to say it’s not a U-turn. But in terms of the retail bit, it is a U-turn....
...A thoughtful report by the Fabian Society, commissioned by the Labour party and the health service union Unison, urges a future Labour government to boost care worker wages within a “National Care Service...
...The plumbers who fixed our boilers in lockdowns. The delivery drivers who brought us our shopping. The farmers who kept food on our plates....
...I’ll start by taking you through a marmalade-dropper of a U-turn in the latest draft of an initiative designed to use EU taxpayer money to turbo-charge Europe’s defence industry....
...Then, just days after reaffirming its intentions not to speed up its EU membership application, the government performed a U-turn, joining Ukraine and Moldova with an application to join the bloc....
...“There’s no appetite to take it back [to Congress],” said one EU diplomat. “Biden’s very pleased with this legislation.”...
...Its final Gardiner – Robert David Lion Gardiner – was a childless former Wall Street executive who inhabited the home until his death in 2004 at the age of 93....
...“If the plant is built here, no tourists will come,” she said....
...So I think just saying we failed is it is no use at all....
...local issue like this....
...The local governments all say the particular thing there is that the unions actually have bargaining arrangements with the Local Government Association there, so it’s not quite the same sort of handed-down-from-central-government...
...Labour unions have planned a national strike on Thursday to pressure for salary hikes....
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