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...“The government’s latest announcements signal a shift to more pragmatism in dealing with the consequences of Brexit,” said Anton Spisak, who writes on EU/UK relations at the Tony Blair Institute, a think-tank...
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...The former director-general of the CBI, Digby Jones, was installed as a trade minister....
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...Under Tony Blair, reforms were made early in the electoral cycle, such as the Bank of England’s independence in 1997. The economic backdrop mattered, too....
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...I’m at tony.barber@ft.com. First, the results of last week’s poll....
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...At a dinner soon after, Jones impishly starts provoking Don by humming Wynette’s recent hit song “D-I-V-O-R-C-E”....
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