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...The court’s only woman president was replaced upon her retirement a few months later by its first Scot....
...He was chief of staff to George Osborne. He’s actually was selected several weeks ago for Bicester and Woodstock. But I think we’ve all slightly sort of woken up to it after Nick Timothy was selected....
...We have this immense government rescue of the offending institutions and often the offending people who get off scot-free, as it were, while millions of others lost homes, jobs, there was a huge spike in...
...The golden era in Sino-British relations promoted by ex-chancellor George Osborne is long gone, but it’s far from clear the current Johnson government has a coherent strategy in place....
...Mr Osborne said the referendum should never have been held....
...It was supposed to carry on increasing, but [George] Osborne decided it should be frozen. Now, every Budget people are pushing for it to be increased, kept the same and reduced....
...If Scots were lastingly politicised, and riven, by their referendum, Britons as a whole might be too....
...She even faces unruly Scots. And there is something of the revenge tragedy about the way she has sacked and humiliated former enemies such as George Osborne....
...The down-to-earth MP for Wyre and Preston, a former Scots Guard platoon commander, is helping to run the former London mayor’s campaign and his glad-handing and cajoling went on throughout the day....
...He opted to follow George Osborne in announcing a surcharge on many people buying a buy-to-let or second home. A 3 percentage point charge will be imposed from April 2016....
...For now, our own United Kingdom stays together and, by magnificently defeating the French at Murrayfield last weekend, the Scots rugby team ensured England won the Six Nations Championship....
...“Very soon, the SNP will have to decide whether they are a proper social democratic party, or a nest of fearties,” Mr Tickell wrote, using a Scots word for cowards....
...The scene: George Osborne’s office as a call comes in from Jin Liqun, president of the AIIB. Ni hao Mr Jin, good to speak to you again....
...Brexit Scots Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, had to tread an awkward political tightrope yesterday in not aligning herself too closely with David Cameron and George Osborne....
...Mrs May also moved Philip Hammond from the Foreign Office and made him chancellor — the UK’s finance minister — to replace George Osborne....
...When the Treasury conducted a similar exercise before last year’s Scottish independence referendum, Alex Salmond, the former Scots first minister, accused it of engaging in “nefarious” activities....
...The Scot implemented the coalition government’s austerity programme but lost his seat at the general election; he has been rewarded by Mr Osborne who nominated him for the big international post....
...Mr Osborne rated the Scot highly and feels sympathy for a former colleague — albeit from another party — who oversaw tough spending decisions and then lost his Highland seat as part of the SNP landslide....
...Mr Osborne said: “Nick has been one of the outstanding public servants of his generation....
...Others say the Scottish Conservatives are handicapped by their association with a UK party seen as unfeeling and out of touch with Scots....
...will cost Scots with incomes over £43,387 up to £323 more in tax a year....
...Cameron and Osborne nor the continental Europeans choose those. Where to from here?...
...On the second ballot, Boris Johnson defeats George Osborne — and is invited to form a government....
...The taxman has tried to have his share of whisky revenues since at least 1644, when the Scots Parliament passed an Excise Act fixing the duty at 2/8d for a Scots pint....
...Chancellor George Osborne made an attempt during a visit on Monday to put the SNP on the spot, challenging its opposition to Britain’s Scotland-based nuclear deterrent by promising more investment and jobs...
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