Hints and tips:
...“I often get asked about this and I say, ‘we’re not going to have a set policy but if I was in your shoes, I would want to meet with people, I would want to be in the office, I’d want to sit with that partner...
...Lucy Fisher Stephen. Stephen Bush Yeah....
...You’d have thought they would by now....
...Sajid Javid went on to be chancellor of the exchequer and if the Covid-19 pandemic had reached Europe a week earlier, he’d probably be prime minister now....
...I’d give it back....
...For those who love Hong Kong, as I do, Stephen Roach’s recent FT column makes for depressing and all too plausible reading: “It pains me to say Hong Kong is over”....
...Miranda GreenI’d call that a fairly honourable defeat....
...Lucy FisherAnd Stephen Bush. Hi, Stephen. Stephen BushHi, Lucy. Lucy FisherWe’ll be joined later by the FT’s Peter Foster....
...The New York Times reports that Robert F Kennedy Jr, who is running for president as an independent, is expected to pick Silicon Valley lawyer Nicole Shanahan as his running mate....
...George ParkerWell, I’d say that Suella Braverman played a useful purpose for Rishi Sunak....
...Albert Hammond Jr on coffee The Strokes’ guitarist loves the ritual of the daily grind I love coffee. I’m not sure if I’d call it an obsession – I like “ritual”....
...Lucy FisherAnd the FT’s Stephen Bush. Hi, Stephen. Stephen BushHi, Lucy....
...Stephen, do you think Johnson himself has changed tack?...
...I think they’re both right, but I’d rather be in Starmer’s shoes than Rishi Sunak’s....
...In 1937 the writer began what would have been his first theatrical play, to be called Human Wishes, and based on the life of Samuel Johnson....
...If you have any thoughts on what you’d like us to tackle in the column, let me know by emailing us at insidepolitics@ft.com. However you spend it, have a wonderful weekend!...
...Spoiler alert: everyone gets a happy ending, more or less, even the uptight monarch (none other than Stephen Fry)....
...(Even some in Westminster wrote him off as a cipher of Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings when he was appointed as chancellor.)...
...Lucy FisherAnd FT columnist Stephen Bush. Hi, Stephen. Stephen BushHi, Lucy....
...They’d had a huge influx of defectors from the Labour party and Change UK who’d sort of fallen in with them....
...I wish they’d done the clarinet quintet instead, which you can listen to on Spotify here....
...Last year, Trump was able to install Mike Johnson, a relatively obscure lawmaker from Louisiana but one of his allies, to be Speaker of the House....
...That old lesson played out again last month as French director Justine Triet won the Cannes Palme d’Or for courtroom drama Anatomy of a Fall....
...“The bad news is if the election were held today, he’d lose,” says Paul Begala, a Democratic strategist who advised former president Bill Clinton....
...So yeah, that’s why you’d do it if you’re Rishi Sunak. Lucy FisherYeah....
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