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...Government insiders said the baccalaureate policy was a personal mission of the prime minister, who proposed the scheme during his Conservative leadership bid against Liz Truss in 2022 that ultimately ended...
...One Tory official said the prime minister was expected to convene his cabinet to “rubber stamp” his HS2 plan before his speech to party members in Manchester....
...battling to contain criticism from Muslim MPs in his party over his stance on the Israel-Hamas war....
...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 Keir also gets on with Scholz as well. The way the SPD ran on a campaign of ‘respect’ echoes a lot of his thinking,” the figure added....
...Starmer has described his agenda as one of “security and hope”....
...I’m at tony.barber@ft.com. First, the results of the poll in last week’s newsletter....
...Kwarteng will set out some of his City of London reforms in his mini-Budget on Friday, but he will launch a more comprehensive shake up of financial services later in the autumn....
...President Vladimir Putin argued falsely that Kyiv was seeking to develop a “dirty bomb”, in what Ukrainian officials see as attempts to bully western allies into stopping the flow of weapons....
...Sunak’s Tory leadership campaign video with his shredder is one of the cringe moments of 2022, a perfect example of how Brexit has a strange capacity to reduce apparently sensible people to absurdity....
...as commissioner....
...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...
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...After being pilloried for his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, Mr Johnson finds himself in the unusual position of having manoeuvred Britain into the position of being a global leader in the purchase and...
...In Brussels, Gove was seen as trying to “milk” the commission’s error as a means of reneging on parts of the NI protocol....
...He cited an image of a youthful Mr Cameron cycling into the House of Commons, with an official driver behind him carrying his official papers....
...Correction: China’s imports and exports data were published on Monday, not on Wednesday as stated in an earlier version of this article....
...It hasn’t exactly been a quiet summer, with EU trade commissioner “Big Phil” Hogan resigning from his post after claims he broke Ireland’s coronavirus restriction rules....
...But Tony Travers, a London School of Economics professor on the advisory panel of the review, said he had “zero criticism” of Mr Oakervee, who “did everything he could to be fair minded” in his report....
...(FT) It’s time for a liberal fightback The poet Robert Frost once defined a liberal as a man too broad-minded to take his own side in an argument....
...Until then, Germany will be stuck in its unfamiliar new role as the laggard of Europe.”...
...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....
...“It is untenable to move ahead with this idea when the mood in the meeting was so overwhelmingly opposed to it,” one Tory official tells George Parker after a narrow 6-5 defeat for the PM....
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