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...He added: “There’s no convention that’s developed that you’d keep these appointments open for an incoming government to fill.”...
...It is the first step of where we’d want to get to,” one of the insiders reportedly said, adding they were reflecting new internal thinking on the EU relationship within the Labour leadership....
...It added: “As you’d expect we continue to work with our EU partners on wider global issues and solutions for common global challenges.”...
...He urged the party to return Hester’s donation, saying: “Ideally, you’d want to pay it back” but acknowledged that some of the funds may have already been spent....
...Sir Sajid Javid, former Tory home secretary, said: “I’d hope every MP would confront such a statement head on. Liz should really know better.”...
...Sajid Javid went on to be chancellor of the exchequer and if the Covid-19 pandemic had reached Europe a week earlier, he’d probably be prime minister now....
...“It was prompted by [Prime Minister] Theresa May telling a nurse that there wasn’t a magic money tree [for pay rises] and being outraged by it.” There are no vocals, though....
...And, you know, ditto in some ways Theresa May talking about ending modern slavery; you know, Tony Blair talking about public service reform....
...The whole episode is worth chewing over because it illustrates how far both sides need to go to avoid triggering those powerful — and I’d argue, destructive — old Brexit reflexes....
...Theresa Levitt, a University of Mississippi professor, has produced a delightful history of science and scent at the dawn of the modern age....
...This being the season of redemption and resurrection, I thought I’d start with a couple of cheerier Brexit stories for once....
...Before forming the rap group Public Enemy in 1985, Chuck D was a graphic design student....
...That’s why former prime minister Theresa May sought to remain in what was in effect a customs union with the EU....
...Can the Conservatives find a new raison d’être?...
...Stories like this bristle throughout Politics on the Edge, Stewart’s brutally frank account of his nine years as an MP under prime ministers David Cameron and Theresa May....
...“This co-operation has never been easy, except for one time when the leaders were friends, [Valéry] Giscard [d’Estaing] and [Helmut] Schmidt.” He is hopeful about Poland’s role under Donald Tusk....
...“Instead of trashing previous administrations, he could have said, ‘I’ve only been in office for one year, this is what I’d do with a first full five-year term in office’....
...Theresa May did actually most of the work. Yeah, I know. The Theresa May premiership that nobody ever speaks about - she actually made progress in Labour territory. Yes, exactly. Yeah....
...George ParkerWell, I’d say that Suella Braverman played a useful purpose for Rishi Sunak....
...Hannah White Theresa May doing net zero. Stephen Bush Theresa May, yeah....
...Robert ShrimsleyIn fairness to Theresa May, I haven’t read it, I think it’s a good call, don’t read it....
...We’d gone to Germany — the Alps and the Black Forest — and everywhere I looked, I felt a twinge of envy....
...You’d have thought they would by now....
...Cleo Watson, an adviser to Johnson and before that Theresa May, promised a bodice-ripper after leaving Downing Street in late 2020....
...They’d had a huge influx of defectors from the Labour party and Change UK who’d sort of fallen in with them....
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