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...One former senior education department official said proposals for a baccalaureate-style system were consistent with the government’s ambitions, set out in April, to ensure “every young person studies some...
...Javid told the London Tech Week conference that “billions” should be invested in the project to provide 10 times the capacity of the “exascale” machine promised by Jeremy Hunt, current chancellor, in his...
...But while Johnson may be determined to plough on, Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair’s media chief at the time of Britain’s last fuel crisis in 2000, says the danger for Johnson is that his agenda is simply overwhelmed...
...Mass testing, crucial to lockdown exit plans, is unrealistic because of high costs and lack of production capacity, said Carlo Rosa, chief executive of DiaSorin, which supplies Covid-19 diagnostic and antibody...
...You have to know when to put people like us in our place and not answer an embarrassing question. So that was probably quite a good sign of his capacity to handle himself. Do you think...?...
...His big break actually came from outside in 2006, when Tony Blair was looking for an official to run his private office....
...Cummings, a former Tory adviser to Michael Gove at the education department, despised Cameron’s lack of ideological fervour and did his best to stop Number 10 knowing what his boss was doing....
...In the meantime, the task of trying to assemble a cross-party, business-heavy campaign to keep Britain in the EU has been left to a group including some of the leading “New Labour” figures from the Tony...
...Siim Kallas, the European transport commissioner and negotiator at the ICAO assembly, is expected to say in his speech on Tuesday that the EU has “moved a long way over recent months”, but insist its amended...
...In a relatively rare interview by a senior Whitehall official, Mr Fraser told the Financial Times he wanted his staff to develop a “commercial mindset” and insisted the new focus on trade and inward investment...
...one of the most severe tests Barack Obama has faced in his presidency....
...The coalition will also increase direct local accountability – taking on board some of the US model of elected local officials – including the election of police commissioners....
...The absence of a clear alternative to Mr Blair could count in his favour....
...Boris Johnson, the London mayor, made Labour’s former sports minister, Kate Hoey, his sports commissioner in 2008. So, if Labour was kicked out, would she like a job?...
...His comments in a BBC interview came after Mr Balls brushed aside the refusal by the Commons children, schools and families committee to endorse his appointment of Ms Atkinson as England’s official children...
...He shoots a theatrical stare at his smiling official: “What do you mean it would run up a big phone bill for the department?”...
...Long seen in the Brown camp as a bitter enemy because of his allegiance to Mr Blair, the former European Union trade commissioner is now deputy prime minister in all but name....
...He was appointed as short-term chief-of-staff to Boris Johnson, helping him in his London mayoralty for the first three months, and now heads a team of officials drawing up Cameron’s preparations for government...
...So why did Mr Brown turn to Peter Mandelson, who still had a year of his five-year term to serve as trade commissioner in Brussels, where he could have been safely left to pursue any lingering hopes of a...
...“Pulsating with energy”, in the words of one admirer, he has forged a department – Children, Schools and Families – to match his expansive vision....
...They included a member of the House of Lords, a former US State Department official, an adviser to Silvio Berlusconi and a former British ambassador....
...Under the statute, commissioners of the Virginia Department of Corrections were directed to review for possible commitment all prisoners about to be released who “receive a score of four or more on the Rapid...
...Ann Clywd, Tony Blair’s special envoy on human rights in Iraq, said she was “appalled” by reports of “ongoing abuse and torture in detention centres run by the Iraqi Ministry of Interior”....
...His officials argue that the savings tax legislation is “visionary” and provides a starting point for improvement....
...Sir Michael Scholar, Mr Mandelson’s senior civil servant at the UK’s department of trade and industry, also dismisses any suggestion that the trade commissioner hates detail....
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