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...The chancellors who came immediately after him — John Major, Norman Lamont and Ken Clarke — were all in a sense destroyed by his failures....
...Stephen Anness is manager of the Invesco Select Trust plc Global Equity Income Share Portfolio...
...However, Lamont cautioned investors against rushing to sell now, as the company’s exit from the index has probably already been factored into the share price....
...Stewart Fleming and Philip Stephens captured the Fed chairman’s changing mood towards intervention....
...Stephen Message, a UK equity income fund manager at LGIM, said that even when companies resumed paying dividends, it was likely to be at a lower level than before the crisis, potentially for several years...
...Mr Lamont blinked first....
...Job moves Stephen Jones, chief executive of bank lobby group UK Finance, resigned on Tuesday after being dragged into a legal case against his former employer Barclays....
...The files contain a series of letters from Stephen Dorrell, financial secretary to the Treasury, to departmental ministers urging them to find new candidates to sell off....
...An argument between the then chancellor Norman Lamont and the Bundesbank chief provided one of the triggers for the crisis....
...In any case, argues Stephen King, economist to HSBC, the buoyant British economy of the 1990s is falsely credited to the depreciation in 1992....
...The FT’s Neil Collins spots another historical parallel — between UK chancellor Philip Hammond and his ill-fated 1990s counterpart Norman Lamont — but “every chancellor needs a slice of luck and Mr Hammond...
...Yet Philip Stephens shows that even in 1952 Harold Macmillan called for closer links to Europe....
...Emma Kate Nelson is delectably shrill as Lamont....
...This speech came after that of Johann Lamont who, in a party whose leadership has long been dominated by Scots, is the improbable leader of Scottish Labour....
...Dalton Philips, CEO, Wm Morrison Supermarkets Paul Polman, CEO, Unilever Andy Clarke, CEO, ASDA Stores John Fallon, CEO, Pearson Stephen Howard, CEO, Business in the Community Dame Gail Rebuck, Chair...
...Putting her in a high-level position in the campaign to save the union at next year’s referendum would be a huge risk. 2) Salmond seems to have dealt reasonably well with Johann Lamont and Ruth Davidson...
...philip.stephens@ft.com...
...Sir Stephen Dalton, the UK’s chief of air staff, hurtled down the runway behind the controls of a Russian-designed Sukhoi-30 at the Kalaikunda air base in West Bengal....
...Additional reporting by Elizabeth Rigby, James Lamont and James Wilson...
...Earlier this year, Stephen Roach, chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, said New Delhi was overstimulating the economy with public spending and monetary policy that was too loose....
...Stephen Nickell, a former MPC member who is now at the Office for Budget Responsibility describes Sir Mervyn as “quite open”....
...Stephen Cohen, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution think-tank in Washington, says one lesson of the Mumbai attacks is that Pakistan’s intelligence services may have lost control of some operatives...
...“There’s a need to look for practical steps …Living in the past simply won’t work,” said Stephen Cohen, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, in Washington....
...His dismissive remarks over the “iffy” Harrier came soon after Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Dalton, the chief of the UK air staff, acknowledged the possibility of a sale while paying a visit to India to...
...Shane Warne and Mark Waugh of Australia, Hansie Cronje of South Africa and Stephen Fleming of New Zealand all had a brush with the increasingly notorious Indian bookmakers....
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