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...Yet Chinese officials later pushed back at many of Yellen’s main talking points, especially US complaints of Chinese excess capacity and dumping....
...Donelan had attacked Sang and Patel in a letter written in her capacity as secretary of state to UKRI’s chief executive Dame Ottoline Leyser....
...Yellen delivered her message to Beijing from a solar energy manufacturer in Georgia on Wednesday, just days before her second trip to China as Treasury secretary....
...US energy secretary Jennifer Granholm told reporters that as US LNG exports surged it was “critical” for her department to “remain a responsible actor” as it looked at whether the additional volumes were...
...Just take the NHS: in January 2011, 17 people were forced to wait more than 12 hours in a hospital emergency department for admission or discharge in England. This January, it was 54,000....
...Sally Warren, director of policy at the King’s Fund think-tank, said the letter would lead to a “reprioritisation process” in hospitals....
...The flower and horticulture industry in both the UK and the EU has already warned that the introduction of physical border inspections in April is an “accident waiting to happen” because of a lack of capacity...
...The ministerial code of conduct states that departments “will publish, quarterly, details of hospitality received by ministers in a ministerial capacity”....
...As the member of our political team who covered the department for health, it was my job to go to the closed door briefings that took place in early March 2020....
...The country’s official manufacturing purchasing managers’ index came in at 49.5 this month, missing forecasts and trailing a reading of 50.2 in September....
...officials about backing the UK policy of deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda....
...“At first, she was trying to find her stride while under intense public scrutiny, which I think was heightened because of gender and race,” says Anthony Coley, a former senior justice department official...
...Kemi Badenoch, business secretary, decided to largely abandon the UKCA mark as part of her drive to simplify the post-Brexit business landscape....
...Another government insider, speaking ahead of Bowler’s appointment, said: “The prime minister holds Antonia [Romeo] in the highest regard, and has another very senior job in mind for her.”...
...US secretary of state Antony Blinken cancelled a planned trip to Beijing, which would have been the first by a Biden cabinet official, in response to the discovery of the aircraft....
...“As soon as you start losing capacity, it is very difficult to rebuild.”...
...Officials reckon Hungary could vote on the matter by the end of this month, leaving Turkey alone. What to watch today EU interior ministers meet in Brussels, from 0930am....
...One EU official said they expect air taxis could become a more common reality by 2030 when the U-space should be a working alternative to the traditional airspace, slotting in below planes....
...A faint smell of lignite drifted through the elaborate, golden interior....
...Joe Biden in clipThe Department of Defense has moved the USS Gerald R Ford carrier striker to the eastern Mediterranean and bolstered our fighter aircraft presence....
...As Seb, George and Jim reveal, she finally gave up the ghost at 11pm in her hotel suite, a little more than an hour after she spoke and won applause for her growth plan at ConservativeHome’s glitzy reception...
...Duan Xiaoqing, head nurse of the neurology department at Luoyang No 3 Hospital in central China’s Henan province, said all 38 of her staff had been infected, but they kept working through sore throats and...
...But her hardline rhetoric came in for criticism when she portrayed the Channel boat crossings as an “invasion” of England’s coast....
...At the same time, European officials stepped up their push for her to publish, three people involved in the discussions said....
...Meanwhile the prime minister’s appointment of James Bowler, a Treasury civil servant of 20 years standing, as the finance ministry’s new permanent secretary was a further example of her efforts to reassure...
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