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...Robert Shrimsley’s analysis “Sunak’s ‘Italian Job’ moment” (Opinion, February 1) is spot on — that the Tories’ predicament is not unlike the cliffhanging ending of the iconic British film comedy...
...There are two recent exceptions to this rule: Jim Callaghan’s government was defeated in a confidence vote, which meant Callaghan lost control of the timing of the election in 1979....
...Perhaps the most striking revelation is that three prime ministers, Wilson, James Callaghan and more surprisingly Margaret Thatcher, colluded to keep his spying secret....
...One doubles as Seyton, Macbeth’s servant, played with creepy watchfulness by Ferdy Roberts; the other two (Calum Callaghan and Ben Caplan) morph into the murderers hired by Macbeth to pursue Banquo....
...SVB was small, with a “very concentrated deposit base”, says Amundi’s head of European equity research, Ciaran Callaghan....
...However, Anthony Crosland, foreign secretary, rubbished the idea of joining the Snake in a memo to Callaghan days later....
...As Richard Roberts wrote in When Britain Went Bust, the UK was the biggest user of IMF funding from the mid-1940s through the mid-1970s, after exiting second world war with large debts and an uncompetitive...
...Robert Shrimsley wrote a very good column about the very real policy differences between the two parties a couple of weeks ago....
...Instead of initially employing architects, Adams planned its form with Martin Francis, a designer who worked on the glass pyramid extension of the Louvre in Paris, and James O’Callaghan, a structural engineer...
...The announcement of the bill came two weeks after Lord Chancellor Robert Buckland closed a public consultation on the process....
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...Jenkins, who had replaced Callaghan as chancellor, had picked up on the idea and was enthusiastic....
...Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution was influenced by the economist Robert Malthus’s Essay on the Principle of Population....
...She wanted Robert Armstrong dismissed, because he was friendly with Heath and Roy Jenkins, as well as Robin Butler because he had once attended a Private Eye lunch (she hated the magazine)....
...“These few subversive troublemakers cause disruption . . . out of all proportion to their number,” then cabinet secretary Robert Armstrong told Thatcher....
...However, the consequences of those decisions and Callaghan’s Budget in 1967 pale in comparisons to Budgets enacted in the run-up to the second world war....
...As leader of the opposition in the Lords throughout the Wilson and Callaghan governments, he used his numerical predominance in the upper house with tact, skilfully exploiting the peers’ residual powers...
...Labour whips argue they are not in any case trying to re-run the Callaghan era and that, thanks to “timetabling motions”, MPs know when they would be voting....
...The last one of these brought down the Callaghan government in 1979....
...Mr Callaghan’s turbulent years with the Ulster Unionists could set an ominous precedent; the DUP has already sent mixed signals about its loyalty to Mrs May, with Ms Foster, the DUP leader, suggesting it...
...head Grenfell Tower inquiry Kensington council sidelined after faltering Grenfell relief effort ————- Letter in response to this article: Lower-rise buildings are no less at risk of fire / From Lee Callaghan...
...Roberts describes Prime Minister James Callaghan’s dithering about whether it would be too provocative for Healey to address that year’s Labour conference about the approach to the IMF....
...It took Callaghan about a month to reply, but when he did the answer was a firm no....
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...Thus Harry Callaghan, the American photographer whose favourite subject was his wife Eleanor, uses multiple exposures to conceal her face behind a screed of superimposition....
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