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...The DUP is scrutinising the agreement and powerful party chief executive Timothy Johnston put members on a “talk to no one order” after two of its MPs gave it the thumbs-down on Monday night, said a unionist...
...Some Conservatives have discussed a plan to oust Mr Cummings — in the similar way they forced Theresa May to sack her two key aides Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill after the embarrassing result of the 2017 election...
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...When her co-chief of staff Nick Timothy quit after the Tories lost their parliamentary majority at the disastrous 2017 general election, Mrs May’s early agenda was mostly jettisoned....
...Urged by her joint chief of staff, Nick Timothy, Mrs May produced a manifesto that included a policy that would force the elderly to pay all but the last £100,000 of their care costs....
...“Some of these ideas aren’t that different to those being voiced in Number 10 in the Nick Timothy (Mrs May’s aide until the 2017 general election) era,” he said....
...But her decision to oust key advisers Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill after the election in June 2017 marked the start of improving relations with corporate leaders....
...Business leaders concede that relations with Downing Street have improved since Ms Hill and Mr Timothy quit last summer, and even admit that business has moved “further up the agenda”....
...In June, Theresa May sacked her closest confidant, Nick Timothy, amid the ashes of the general election. Now she has also sacked the old political friend brought in to replace him....
...But one government official said the ECJ “red line” had been blurred since the departure in June of Nick Timothy, Mrs May’s pro-Brexit former co-chief of staff....
...Mr Timothy was forced to resign as co-chief of staff in Number 10 after the June election....
...That was rejected by Mr Timothy, who said: “The idea he appointed himself is absurd. She rates him.”...
...The threat to walk away from the EU without an agreement if necessary was included on the advice of Nick Timothy, Mrs May’s then co-chief of staff....
...The most high-profile departures were Mr Timothy and Ms Hill, who were effectively made scapegoats for the election result....
...Nick Timothy, Mrs May’s former chief of staff, wrote in the Daily Telegraph: “This week was the opportunity for the Tories to reset and show the country not only that they understand the need for change,...
...The government is also understood to be considering how to improve the system of university tuition fees — which Nick Timothy, Mrs May’s former co-chief of staff, described last month as an “ultimately pointless...
...Likewise the departure of Mr Timothy represents a major gear shift in the personal dynamics of the May regime....
...Mrs May’s original plans were heavily influenced by Nick Timothy, her joint chief of staff, who resigned in the wake of her disappointing general election campaign....
...Nick Timothy, former co-chief of staff to the prime minister, had warned against allowing China to invest in the UK’s nuclear programme, giving Beijing the capacity to “shut down Britain’s energy production...
...Several more departures came after the election, including the head of Mrs May’s policy team and her joint chiefs of staff, Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill, who were blamed for creating a poisonous atmosphere...
...Nick Timothy, her former co-chief of staff, previously said it was “baffling” that the British government had been welcoming to Chinese state-owned companies in sensitive sectors....
...Mrs May was shielded from direct encounters with business leaders for almost a year by her former chiefs of staff, Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill, as part of a conscious effort to rebrand the Conservatives...
...The chancellor’s free market approach is at odds with the more interventionist approach of Nick Timothy, Mrs May’s powerful chief of staff in Number 10....
...Mr Timothy quit soon after the June general election, when the Conservatives lost their majority in the Commons and Mrs May was forced to ditch some of her reform plans....
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