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...Sir Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern, who as UK prime minister and Irish taoiseach, respectively, were central to securing the 1998 accord, agreed on Tuesday that fresh impetus was needed to try to end the impasse...
...Tony West, an energy consultant from Oxfordshire, responded to the changing atmosphere around Scotland’s housing market in January last year by selling his only Scottish property, a rented flat in Granton...
...“We’ve got so much to learn from what Tony and Gordon did in 1997,” Reeves said. But she added: “The challenges we face today are of a different nature....
...Harvey Redgrave, home affairs lead at the Tony Blair Institute think-tank, said that if the recent recruitment of 20,000 police officers led to an increase in charge rates, the court system would not be...
...“Sweden now has the deepest capital markets in Europe,” said William Wright, co-founder of markets think-tank New Financial....
...I’m at tony.barber@ft.com. Three reasons for fighting corruption The struggle to suppress corruption is essential for three reasons....
...The 11-page account by a close aide to Tony Blair, former UK prime minister, recounted how prospects for a deal, which looked “bleak” when the parties arrived in Belfast on Tuesday April 7, 1998, turned...
...Tony Williams, principal at legal consultancy Jomati, said firms had seen a drop-off in M&A work since then, and rising costs due to higher salaries....
...“Tony Kushner and Steven Spielberg,” he says. “But then what would my job be?”...
...Barack Obama, Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher, Donald Trump? Albeit with varying degrees of enthusiasm, it’s a yes. Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss, Kamala Harris, Ron DeSantis? An emphatic no....
...It is the first time the UK government has used the power granted to it under the 1998 Scotland Act, under which Tony Blair’s Labour administration created the Scottish parliament....
...George Wright, the managing director of M Wright and sons, which employs 55 people near Leicester in weaving high-technology fabrics, says it has been a long slog trying to get revenues back to their pre-Covid...
...The deal ended the three-decades long ‘troubles’ in the region after being negotiated by his Labour successor Tony Blair....
...We should be grateful to the CBI’s Tony Danker (FT.com, November 21) for breaking the “Don’t mention Brexit!”...
...Additional reporting by Josephine Cumbo, Philip Georgiadis, Jane Croft, Robert Wright and Bethan Staton...
...most famous (and some lesser-known) arias and duets from works such as Madama Butterfly, Tosca and La bohème, sung by a cast including tenor Joseph Calleja, soprano Nicole Car and baritone Peter Coleman-Wright...
...Reporting by Anjli Raval, Robert Wright, Jasmine Cameron-Chileshe, Oliver Barnes, Chris Giles, Dan Thomas, Josephine Cumbo, Ian Smith, Kate Beioley and Bethan Staton...
...Comprising some 2,700 homes, it achieved some notoriety as an emblem of urban deprivation in the media 20 years later when Tony Blair chose to give his first speech there as prime minister — its monolith...
...That’s what one former Conservative minister makes of Nadhim Zahawi’s prospects in office, per Robert Wright and Jim Pickard....
...Tony Fernandes’s Capital A group is planning New York listings for its low-cost AirAsia airline and a digital “super app”....
...Letters in response to this article: Freedom of movement: how the Swiss stuck with it / From Tony Orchard, Exeter, Devon, UK Britons deserve more than bland Brexit optimism / From Richard Wright, London...
...You can find me at tony.barber@ft.com. Well, now we know. The Colosseum is a social asset worth about €77bn. So says the consultancy Deloitte in a report released this week....
...Tony Smith Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, UK...
...After researching the world’s few, uncontested, geniuses, Yale University historian Craig Wright concluded that we need better metrics for identifying remarkable talent....
...Tony Blair personally blocked the adoption of some recommendations of the Macpherson report on race relations when he was prime minister in 1998, stressing his desire not to overreact to the landmark inquiry...
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