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...Tight is prefaced by a trippy, high-speed slideshow of vintage news images: Neil Kinnock stumbling into the surf; John Prescott thumping a dissenter; Boris Johnson on a zip wire; Jacob Rees-Mogg reclining; Theresa...
...Louise Casey’s independent review of the Metropolitan Police’s culture and standards makes grim but predictable reading....
...The review by Baroness Louise Casey was commissioned after the rape and murder of Sarah Everard by a serving Met officer, Wayne Couzens, in 2021....
...Louise Casey’s damning review into the Met’s culture and standards called for the force to be overhauled or broken up, while Keir Starmer has hinted he is open to doing the same....
...Hannah White Theresa May doing net zero. Stephen Bush Theresa May, yeah....
...This magpie process draws inspiration from a host of movies: West Side Story, Grease, Fight Club and, most significantly, the three film versions of James M Cain’s The Postman Always Rings Twice....
...One was Theresa May — he said she was the overwhelming favourite to become the next prime minister....
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...Enjoy the rest of your week, Louise LucasLex writer The article has been corrected to credit Hermann Hauser as co-founder of Acorn...
...Victoria Atkins, the minister in charge of drugs when Theresa May was prime minister, had to recuse herself from debates in parliament around cannabis because her husband, Paul Kenward, is managing director...
...Denis Thatcher famously did and Theresa May was very honest about the role Philip May performed,” she added....
...Louise Lucas is a Lex writer Samsung Rising: Inside the Secretive Company Conquering Tech, by Geoffrey Cain, Ebury, RRP £14.99, 416 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Cafe....
...It’s a compelling insight into the rough and tumble of South Korean business — “a gripping read”, according to the FT’s Louise Lucas....
...PIG: Palm, Ireland, George MAN: Melon, Andy Murray, Nightingale OWL: Oliver Twist, Wilson (Jacqueline), Liverpool Picture Quiz 1 and 10 (Joe Sugg and Suggs) 8 and 2 (Kelly Brook and Louise Brooks) 3 and...
...Boris Johnson’s Conservatives have begun with a clear lead in the polls but he and his team are wary of a repeat of 2017, which saw them unexpectedly lose 13 seats under Theresa May, the former prime minister...
...Here is what you need to know about four key aides behind the former foreign secretary’s bid to replace Theresa May as Conservative party leader and prime minister....
...But the relationship between Boris Johnson’s government and the main business groups has become more distant than under his predecessor Theresa May....
...But the prime minister’s northern strategy, which mirrors a similar effort by Theresa May in the 2017 election, is fraught with difficulty....
...“It’s a good way of covering as much ground as you can,” said Paul Harrison, who helped to run Theresa May’s tour in 2017. “Hopefully it’s a comfortable place when you’re covering lots of miles....
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...The events of two years ago, when the equivalent poll had delivered the shocking news that Theresa May had lost her majority, was on many minds....
...The message is something his team of Vote Leave alumni — Dominic Cummings, his chief strategist and Lee Cain, Downing Street communications chief — was crafting even before Mr Johnson became Conservative...
...They include Lee Cain, who will be head of communications, James Starkie, who will take on a liaison role with business leaders, and Robert Oxley, who will be press secretary....
...Although Jeremy Hunt, his rival for the leadership, has claimed the result will be “closer than people think”, Conservative MPs and bookmakers are unanimous in the view that Mr Johnson will succeed Theresa...
...Lee Cain, who has worked with Mr Johnson since the referendum, moved across from Downing Street to lead the media operation....
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