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...Sam Townend KC, chair of the Bar Council, said the scale of cuts represented a “false economy”....
...They also point to the US being strong in terms of sanctions levied against officials in Hong Kong where the UK’s actually not issued any, even though of course, we have our historic links to the place....
...He was also able to install Lara Trump, his daughter-in-law, to be co-chair of the RNC....
...Bank of England watchers are expecting a rate cut. The debate here is whether it will have the capacity to start cutting as soon as June....
...“We’re not gonna do anything,” one official said. “The whole corner-crossing stuff is so up-in-the-air in the state.”...
...The former president’s dominance — which included wins in California and Texas, the biggest prizes of the night — will heap more pressure on his main rival, Nikki Haley, to abandon her bid....
...“What’s happening now — it’s like the movie Network, where the main character says ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore’,” says Gene Ludwig, a former Comptroller of the Currency and...
...Meanwhile, the impact of the criminal trials that Trump will have to face as he wages his campaign for a second term in office is a big wild card in the race....
...John Stevenson, the Carlisle MP since 2010 who chairs the Northern Research Group of Tory MPs, notes that June will mark the 10-year anniversary of former chancellor George Osborne launching the “Northern...
...Harris’s political fragility is particularly relevant because US voters are overwhelmingly concerned about Biden’s age — he is 80 — and his capacity to serve two full terms in good health, placing the spotlight...
...Hotels housing the out of state reinforcements are at capacity....
...And one year after the battle for women’s suffrage delivered the right to vote, Harding met 300 delegates of the National Council of Catholic Women in his office. Laddie Boy was there too....
...Does this mean that von der Leyen was wrong and the EU is far from being a real geopolitical power? I’m at tony.barber@ft.com....
...The FBI confiscated his term paper and his mock-up of the bomb, and the press dubbed him the A-Bomb Kid. As a young man in the early 1980s, he ran twice, unsuccessfully, for Congress in Connecticut....
...“The land is close to existing cities, so it’s where you’d want to build,” he says, adding that the public tends to think of the protected space as being all green, which it is not....
...On stage with other newly elected union officials, she was flushed with excitement. “Today is one of my happiest days in a very long time,” she said. “Now at least the world knows we exist.”...
...Labour donor Dale Vince, the founder of Ecotricity, is applying for a judicial review of the legality of the current lenient treatment....
...She taunted David Cameron and George Osborne as “posh boys who don’t know the price of milk”. Brought into Boris Johnson’s cabinet, she was among the last loyalists as his government combusted....
...They don’t have the capacity for renewal,” he says, draining his coffee. “Look, I’m like a Ukrainian general. My offensive hasn’t yet broken through....
...His goal is to emulate the successes of Barack Obama, George W Bush, Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan, while avoiding the pitfalls that befell one-termers such as Donald Trump, George HW Bush and Jimmy Carter...
...I’m gonna bury my head in the sand, and that is the worst thing that you can do....
...I’m tasting bile in my throat,” he told his boss. “The fact is, we’ll be out of money by Friday.” Kelleher strove to put on a stoic front....
...For different reasons, in the US, Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission, has had little success reducing the market dominance of big tech platforms....
...The chair of LPB’s supervisory council has previously suggested the arrest of Ulmans was part of a ruse to depress the price of Ulmans’ assets....
...Here’s what else I’m watching today: Silicon Valley Bank hearings: US regulators face a second day of questioning by lawmakers into the collapse of SVB, having been accused of being ‘asleep at the wheel...
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