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...Alan Johnson, Osborne’s opposite for Labour, grew up in the area, though on the wrong side of the tracks, in the 1950s....
...Reckitt acquired Enfamil when it bought Mead Johnson in 2017 for $18bn in including debt. The judgment has wiped £5bn — or some 13 per cent — off the group’s market value. It is not hard to see why....
...“In terms of the impact of globalisation and industrialisation, the nadir for Stoke was somewhere between 2005 and 2010,” says Tristram Hunt, director of London’s V&A museum and author of The Radical Potter...
...Sir Keir Starmer told the Financial Times that the deal negotiated by then prime minister Boris Johnson was “far too thin.” Here’s more of the interview. 4....
...I remember when the Supreme Court was just about to overturn the Roe v Wade abortion ruling in 2022. I spoke to the CEO of a large American business....
...In parliamentary systems, members of parliament can also revolt, as they did in the UK against Boris Johnson and Liz Truss....
...I live in Stoke Newington, where to be blunt the most consequential elections take place within the Labour party, so my grip on what the political parties are saying to voters in marginal seats would be...
...Dwayne Johnson, aka The Rock, and Barbie’s Ryan Gosling took it several steps — or buttons — further, displaying what is unfortunately known as “heavage”....
...Before most people knew what a camera was, the V&A was already amassing photographs....
...But political discourse, once debased, is hard to restore entirely and bad actors remain ready to stoke up anger and falsehood....
...Paul Johnson, head of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, a think-tank, said Labour’s plans to increase taxes on private schools, individuals with non-domicile status and private equity bosses, would raise...
...This story has been amended to correct the reference to the A50 road corridor between Stoke-on-Trent and Derby....
...Now he’s quite a colourful character, having referred to some of his own constituents in his Stoke-on-Trent seat as “scrotes”, “scum” and “savages”....
...Our institutions didn’t crumble under Johnson and Liz Truss; they triumphed over them....
...You know, Sunak’s obviously trying to use it to stoke support for his crackdown on irregular migration across Europe and presumably it’s useful in that way....
...Lantink’s work has been acquired and shown by museums, including London’s V&A and the Costume Institute at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, while celebrities such as Beyoncé, Billie Eilish and Janelle...
...However, Diana Johnson, Labour MP for Kingston upon Hull North, told parliament that the home affairs committee, which she chairs, would probably want to start an inquiry into the policing of the coronation...
...Gullis’s problem is that with Johnson gone, all that remains is the former premier’s vow to “level up” areas such as Stoke....
...I think a lot of people were anticipating a V-shaped recovery . . . People are now waking up the realisation that volatility is going to be normal going forward.”...
...Top stories today Dare to declare | Rishi Sunak is under growing pressure to break his silence over the parliamentary report into Boris Johnson’s conduct, as a backlash from Tory MPs deepens and Labour...
...But Stokes’ leadership has been obvious; Prince Hal transformed into Henry V at a succession of Agincourts....
...Much of the rest was made in Stoke. “I’ve got a Queen Anne. I haven’t got George I, but I think I’ve got every monarch after that.”...
...In the former “red wall” of the North and the Midlands — areas that fell to Boris Johnson’s Tories at the 2019 election — Labour captured Stoke-on-Trent, Erewash and Blackpool, while winning the Middlesbrough...
...Wins in “red wall” areas in northern England such as Stoke-on-Trent, High Peak and Blackpool were evidence that Starmer was also cutting through in former Leave supporting seats conquered by Boris Johnson...
...In Isleworth and Stoke Newington, Essex and Croydon local authority enforcement teams struggle to deal with scores of “homes” barely the size of a double bed, some without windows....
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