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...The UK government is preparing to announce national security adviser Sir Tim Barrow will become the country’s next ambassador to the US, sparking threats from Labour that it may reverse the appointment....
...Tim Gardner, a policy expert at the Health Foundation think-tank, added: “The decade before the pandemic was the most fiscally austere in the history of the health service.”...
...Officials reported that the list of contenders under consideration for the role include the UK’s national security adviser Sir Tim Barrow, a former UK ambassador to the EU....
...The barrister, who has been a crossbench peer since 2008, went on to advise Johnson last year over partygate, when the House of Commons privileges committee investigated illegal parties held at Downing Street...
...No Way Out: Brexit: From the Backstop to Boris by Tim Shipman William Collins £26, 736 pages Nick Pearce is professor of public policy at the University of Bath and a former head of the Downing Street Policy...
...Last year, Downing Street was accused of making “reheated announcements” after it unveiled a series of existing corporate measures aimed at helping households cope with the cost of living crisis....
...Professor Tim Bale, of Queen Mary, University of London, is sceptical, however....
...Downing Street did not immediately comment....
...So while it is hard right now to see how the Conservatives can keep Starmer out of Downing Street altogether, making it there with a comfortable (or even just a workable) majority remains a work in progress...
...He argued that if he is re-elected mayor and Starmer enters Downing Street at the general election expected this year, it will be a “moment of maximum opportunity” for the capital....
...Downing Street said Sunak “was recused from all policy development and was only sighted on the policy once final decisions had been taken”. What did the UK chancellor announce?...
...sympathetic degrees of striation for authenticity, and have specialised in working with large carpets, especially for historic houses including Castle Howard, Alnwick Castle, the Bank of England and 10 Downing...
...But FT food writer Tim Hayward wants his salt back. Additional contributions from Tee Zhuo, Benjamin Wilhelm and Leah Quinn...
...A Downing Street spokesman told reporters on Thursday that the business department “has committed just over £1bn to ensure postmasters are compensated fairly”....
...We buried people and couldn’t have a wake while Boris [Johnson] was partying in Downing Street.” Nor has Labour been sitting idly by....
...Downing Street said: “Obviously, these allegations are concerning....
...In electoral terms, Tim Bale, professor of politics at Queen Mary University of London, said a significant proportion of the Indian diaspora in Britain had been “moving to the Conservatives for quite some...
...Meanwhile Tim Davie, BBC director-general, faced a sometimes hostile audience of backbench Tory MPs at Westminster, where he defended the broadcaster’s coverage of the war....
...Alison Wolf, the crossbench peer and educational expert who until February was a part-time adviser on skills in Downing Street, said devolving greater powers over adult education to local government would...
...I know that I am going to use the looming by-election in South Ruislip and Uxbridge as an excuse to stop off at Akub in Notting Hill on the way — read Tim Hayward’s mouth-watering review here — but do let...
...More than 200 UK-based tech company executives have urged Downing Street to step in, warning that many companies faced an “existential threat” because they banked with the UK arm of SVB....
...Tim Loughton, MP for East Worthing & Shoreham, said it was time for Johnson to “keep quiet and let the grown-ups in government” get on with the job....
...He said there had been no “pandering” to any political party amid accusations from Labour that BBC executives bowed to pressure from Downing Street and ministers over Lineker’s remarks....
...“Editors [are increasingly] looking to pre-empt the inevitable Downing Street complaints,” one insider said....
...My hunch is that it is certainly happy to do without snazzy or striking outfits in Number 10 Downing Street if that is part of the price for having an organised government....
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