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...Referring to the electoral contest that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is expected to call in the second half of this year, Macpherson said in an interview with Radio 4’s Week in Westminster on Saturday: “It...
...The opposite happened in 2017 when May’s manifesto, overseen by her former joint chief of staff Nick Timothy, included a self-destructing social care reform plan, dubbed “the dementia tax”....
...“It’s been a fucking difficult week,” admitted one ally of Sunak, reflecting on Number 10’s maladroit handling of a dispute over a leading Tory donor, Frank Hester....
...Peat reckons that 2017’s Between the Earth and Sky is hanging-free, but one of her bandmates recalls otherwise. “Oh god, there is one,” she acknowledges. Poisoning is another popular mode of dispatch....
...Its founder and chief executive Timothy Springer has addressed some of the criticisms of UserWay’s technology and has promised accuracy and transparency in Level Access marketing....
...Sunak said in a recent article in the Times that he “understand[s] people’s anger when that dream [of home ownership] feels too far away for too many, especially the younger generation”....
...Business and consumer confidence also expanded with the closely watched S&P PMI survey indicating private sector activity grew at the fastest pace in eight months in January....
...That euphoria has yet to be duplicated, though the IPOs in 2020 saw an average of 50 per cent first-day returns relative to the S&P 500....
...Both Timothy and Harrison are already being talked up in Westminster circles as potential future Conservative leadership candidates....
...Her debut, 2017’s Dua Lipa, ranks just above it. Not many pop stars are so radically optimistic about their fanbase’s allegiance that they’ll rip up a formula that isn’t broken....
...S&P rates EDF as BBB compared with AA for French government bonds....
...And Robert is holding Nick Timothy and Julian Smith, although I think he probably does get some kudos for having sold Nadine Dorries early....
...The fact that Timothy Mellon, a strong Trump supporter and donor, has given $20mn to Kennedy indicates that private surveys back that up....
...Louise Haigh, shadow transport secretary, insisted the cancellation of HS2’s northern leg was “the exact opposite of the levelling up we were promised” and a sign of “chaos” in Sunak’s government....
...HS2’s burn rate means it is scheduled to consume more expenditure per year than the Highways Agency’s renewals programme for the national road network or Network Rail’s capital programme on an annualised...
...HS2’s price tag has more than doubled from the original budget of £33bn a decade ago when the line was originally envisaged to run from London to Birmingham before splitting into two sections to Manchester...
...“The activation of these PAFD units is a symptom of the leadership’s concern about the domestic social stability situation,” said Timothy Heath, senior international defence researcher at the Rand Corporation...
...The debate over HS2’s northern leg had become about “Britain’s ability to do the tough stuff successfully”, he said, and its “credibility as a place to invest”. “That’s what’s now at stake,” he added....
...Chief executives of companies on the US S&P 500 index are paid far more than their UK counterparts, receiving a median of $14.1mn in 2022, according to an annual study published this month by labour union...
...“In the last 10 years there’s been a growing and I think regrettable trend for lawyers to actively parade their politics and identify more with their clients,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme....
...I/O, standing for “input/output”, is his first set of new songs since 2002’s Up. Even by his standards, it’s a lavish undertaking....
...In between raids, he spends time with Flora (Isabella Rosselini), mother of his missing lover, and becomes close with her maid Italia (Carol Duarte), a tone-deaf music student and “nosy parker”....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] Well, we’re joined in the studio now by George Parker, the FT’s political editor. Hi, George. George Parker Hi Lucy....
...These new Irish brands are following in the footsteps of the likes of Magee 1866, a fifth-generation family tweed-maker based in Donegal (Sarah Jessica Parker, who has a home in the county, is a fan), and...
...A tune released by Charlie Parker in the same year Ghana gained independence went on to become a standard: “Now’s the Time”. To December 12, gallery1957.com...
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