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...According to a briefing on Monday by Tory peer and psephologist Lord Robert Hayward and polling company Savanta, the Conservatives had a “national equivalent vote” of 40 per cent in the 2021 elections compared...
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...Lucy FisherAnd the FT’s Robert Shrimsley. Hi, Robert. Robert ShrimsleyHey, Lucy. Lucy FisherIn a moment, the dire state of local authority finances....
...Avanti West Coast was forced to cancel services from the capital to Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester and Scotland for several hours until power was restored mid-afternoon....
...But Robert Alden, Conservative leader of the opposition on the council, said that the “golden decade” of opportunity heralded by the city last year would be undermined by its fresh financial woes....
...I'm drawing all over your psephological - I'm really sorry about that, Robert. But I think that's quite interesting in terms of this pitch....
...Few who care will be assuaged if the numbers fall from a city the size of Birmingham every two years to a city the size of Nottingham annually....
...A state that couldn’t build 80 miles of high-speed rail from Birmingham to Manchester aspires to pick winners in super-advanced manufacturing....
...Plus, the FT’s William Wallis is in Birmingham to assess the damage to the city’s services as the country’s biggest local authority declares itself bankrupt, and Lucy, Stephen and Robert consider the winners...
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...Thus far, the extent of the breach is regulating London’s rickshaw trade, banning the under-16s from smoking forever, and running HS2 from London to Birmingham rather than London to Manchester....
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...Jess Phillips, Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley, said it was “really difficult to get the balance right between the right to protest and intimidation”....
...He now owns and manages a company called Aerosol Industries, which specialises in manufacturing spray adhesive for the flooring industry out of a warehouse in Birmingham....
...Despite this provocation, Robert did not abandon me at a services station....
...Having spent all the money getting it to Birmingham, you will get a different answer....
...asked British comedian David Mitchell in a famous 2006 TV sketch in which he and Robert Webb were dressed as Nazi officers....
...The visual of a high-speed railway that takes longer to reach Birmingham from the capital than a regular London-to-Birmingham train just makes the government look silly....
...Reflecting on Starmer’s New Year speech, Robert Shrimsley’s latest column argues that in reality Labour will be rather more radical than the party’s tone often suggests: Yet for all the talk of Labour caution...
...Among the initiatives announced on Thursday was a new base for the airline at England’s Birmingham airport, which Lundgren said would create “hundreds of jobs”....
...The Freedom Riders were trapped inside the church and had to wait for the US attorney-general, Robert Kennedy, to intervene before they were safe to leave....
...GK Chesterton once wrote of the “night we went to Birmingham by way of Beachy Head”....
...Conductor Robert Ames cued the orchestra’s entry at precisely the right time....
...When asked in an interview with Robert Yates in 1996 what his family made of the images, Billingham said he’d wondered if they would perhaps force new insight, reveal themselves to themselves....
...Robert Shrimsley’s column this week sets out the direction of travel. Some more thoughts on that below....
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