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...It is headed by co-chief executives Steve and James Rigby, having been founded in 1975 by father Peter, who now chairs the group....
...Twice in a decade, British politics was in the partial grip of advisers — Steve Hilton, then Dominic Cummings — whose unusual behaviour was interpreted as proof of genius....
...Arch Brexiter Steve Baker, for instance, says he has been “a systematic plotter who’s tried to remove a prime minister”....
...Gilligan is now back in Number 10, while old colleagues of Cummings, an early backer of Sunak as a future prime minister, remain at Sunak’s side....
...If we are to develop new treatments, and provide better dementia care . . . international collaboration is crucial,” UK health secretary Steve Barclay said at the Nagasaki conference....
...That campaign was the first success of a young Dominic Cummings, the political strategist who would later mastermind the Vote Leave campaign....
...His films include The Face of an Angel, riffing on the case of Amanda Knox, and Greed, with Steve Coogan playing a proxy of fallen Topshop impresario Philip Green....
...The High Court had ruled in June that the Cabinet Office, currently headed by minister Steve Barclay, unlawfully awarded a government contract to Public First, a policy and research company run by James...
...We’ve already had Gyles Brandreth and Sheila Hancock tootling around Britain’s waterways in Great Canal Journeys, and Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan playing exaggerated versions of themselves on The Trip....
...He was endorsed by hardline Brexiters who had previously opposed him, including Steve Baker and Suella Braverman....
...Steve Baker, a former Conservative minister and influential voice among Tory MPs, said his constituents were “60 to one” against Johnson....
...Following a chaotic week, which included the departure of five senior officials and public criticism from cabinet ministers, Steve Barclay, chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, was appointed Johnson’s chief...
...This was Steve Baker, a former ERG chair, urging Boris Johnson to come out of the forest and accept the war is over. Steve BakerYou know, he’s got a choice....
...Cummings insists that the prime minister was warned and that he lied to parliament about the event....
...Russell T Davis: ‘Life doesn’t stop when terrible things happen’ On All4 in the UK and HBO Max in the US Uprising Hot on the heels of last year’s exceptional Small Axe series comes film-maker Steve McQueen...
...These are the key figures: Steve Barclay — chief of staff Barclay, seen by Johnson as “Mr Fixit”, is the most important element of the new team, an experienced figure who already sits in the cabinet as...
...Having helped him into power, Cummings became disappointed in his lack of influence over Johnson, just as Steve Hilton, another maverick adviser, became bitter about David Cameron....
...Even Dominic Cummings’ eyesight test had a touch of originality....
...As Steve Baker, an influential Tory MP, suggested this week, it may be “checkmate”....
...Steve Reed, Labour’s shadow communities secretary, said: “We don’t know how much was spent or whether a donor got anything in return.”...
...But Steve Baker, another former minister, said: “I’ve long believed that this winter we will see inflation coming in and staying in. Now we’ve got an energy crisis on top of it.”...
...Many Tory MPs despise Cummings, but some share the adviser’s critique and want Johnson to prove him wrong....
...Baroness Mone’s true idol Steve Wozniak or Sylvester Stallone?...
...Dominic Cummings, Johnson’s former chief adviser, was scornful of his old boss, whom he calls a “trolley” for his allegedly erratic approach to policymaking. “Classic trolley,” tweeted Cummings....
...His now-spurned adviser Dominic Cummings memorably compared his former boss to a wonky “shopping trolley”, veering this way and that, avoiding tough decisions and personal confrontations, partly as a device...
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