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...New Labour under Sir Tony Blair had a similar approach in the run-up to the 1997 election, as the party broadly accepted Tory chancellor Kenneth Clarke’s tight spending plans after winning that general election...
...“You can do more to unlock more private capital to get investment higher,” said Tom Smith, director of economic policy at the Tony Blair Institute think-tank....
...Ed Balls, an economic adviser in Tony Blair’s incoming Labour government in 1997, says the situation that Starmer will inherit will be far worse than the one that Blair faced....
...In your front page report by George Parker, Sam Fleming and Delphine Strauss, “Reeves recalls Brown’s fiscal rule with pledge to borrow only for investment” (March 20), you note that Gordon Brown, Tony Blair...
...Tom Smith, director of economic policy at the Tony Blair Institute, said the OBR forecasts showed some “quite severe cuts” in public spending after the election....
...Sam Fleming: Central bankers were largely caught napping by the inflationary upsurge that began three years ago....
...The difference is that when Osborne became chancellor in 2010, hospitals and schools had just enjoyed a long spell of increased spending under Tony Blair’s Labour government....
...I’m at tony.barber@ft.com....
...I’m Sam Fleming, the FT’s Brussels bureau chief, standing in for Tony Barber. The rivalry between the US and China has intensified ominously in recent weeks....
...I’m Sam Fleming, Brussels bureau chief of the FT, standing in for Tony Barber as we face a potentially historic weekend in European politics....
...Repower grab Ursula von der Leyen is doing everything she can to prove that the commission will not be coming empty-handed to the energy summit being held on Thursday, write Sam Fleming and Alice Hancock...
...I am away next week so the Saturday edition of Europe Express will be written by my colleague and FT Brussels bureau chief Sam Fleming. You can reach me at tony.barber@ft.com....
...John Major, who had since become prime minister, was resolutely defeated in the 1997 election by Labour’s Tony Blair....
...Letter in response to this article: Why UK should stick to Northern Ireland protocol / From Anton Spisak, Senior Fellow, The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, London EC1, UK...
...“We are, unsurprisingly, seeing disquiet at all levels within Russia’s armed forces,” said Admiral Tony Radakin, chief of the defence staff, the UK’s most senior military officer....
...Both agencies also represent screenwriters including Georgia Pritchett, who has written for HBO’s Succession, and Tony Roche, whose credits include The Thick of It....
...Every Saturday from now on, you will receive Europe Express Weekend, written by Tony Barber, the FT’s European comment editor. It will appear in inboxes at noon CET....
...And a bit of housekeeping: Tony Barber is off this week, leaving tomorrow’s Europe Express Weekend in the competent hands of FT Brussels bureau chief Sam Fleming....
...budget drama The EU’s landmark deal last year setting its €1.2tn seven-year budget plus a €800bn recovery fund by no means marked the end of legislative wrangling over the union’s spending plans, write Sam Fleming...
...Touring and a 3.5-litre, six-cylinder engine originally designed for endurance racing, the four-seat 3500GT was a true, continent-devouring express that won the hearts of numerous celebrity owners, from Tony...
...The war is an opportunity for Europe to reinvent itself and uphold the rule of law, writes Tony Barber....
...A meeting of EU finance ministers in Luxembourg this week is likely to confirm just what a daunting challenge that represents, writes Sam Fleming in Brussels....
...Anton Spisak, a former UK civil servant working on Brexit and now a policy lead at the Tony Blair Institute, says the new committees could defuse rows, but only if the politicians allow it....
...tony.barber@ft.com Letter in response to this article: Tinker, tailor, soldier . . . journalist? / From Andrew Stokes, Hong Kong...
...Mr Sullivan and Tony Blinken, the incoming secretary of state, have stressed that the US and Europe should work more closely together to tackle challenges from China....
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