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...Among them was his friend Tony Disson, who was white and who had looked out for Dowarris years ago when he was a black boy growing up in a racially charged neighbourhood....
...But the affairs of other farming families are not so well organised — take Pat and Tony Archer, for instance....
...Jacques Vert Group Group marketing director 96 Isabella Segal Nyman Libson Paul Partner 97 David Lyon Tony Blair Associates Board managing director 98 Tim Millward Extrastaff Chief executive officer...
...Tony Hall, chief executive of the ROH, believes a northern branch would make the Covent Garden institution more accessible to a mass audience, reducing pressure for public funding cuts....
...There is also an entire strategy unit – with 42 staff – headed by Stephen Aldridge. This outpost of the Cabinet Office, housed in Admiralty Arch, provides strategy and policy advice to the PM....
...There we all were, marvelling at the prime minister who seemed so gritty, so competent, so incorruptible – so not Tony Blair....
...“It is all about available skills and at Aldridge we have engineers with 10, 12, 15 years of experience.”...
...As with 11 other business backers, whose identities were released by the party this week, he was approached by Lord Levy, a friend of Tony Blair and Labour’s chief fund raiser....
...By sponsoring one of Tony Blair’s flagship city academy schools, Rod Aldridge has become known as a supporter of government policies encouraging private sector involvement and funding in the public services...
...The fallout from the discovery of secret loans to the UK’s ruling Labour party intensified on Thursday after the resignation of one of the key backers of Tony Blair, prime minister....
...Mr Aldridge, like some of the other lenders, is also a sponsor of Labour’s city academies scheme....
...Rod Aldridge, executive chairman of Capita, and Sir Christopher Evans, the biotechnology entrepreneur, have both said they expect their £1m loans to be repaid with interest....
...At least there should not be any question of payment in honours, something that has dogged Tony Blair, prime minister....
...A head-on clash between Tony Blair and the trade unions over plans to increase private sector involvement in the National Health Service is set to dominate next week's Labour conference, re-opening a bruising...
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