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...Hammond did not attend, the person added....
...That forced the Tories into confronting those hard choices that the Tory party’s 2019 manifesto had ducked....
...While going into an election in which the Conservative campaign heavily features the words “Labour”, “borrow” and “£28bn” carries risks, it is not obvious that these risks are materially different if the Tory...
...Stewart readily concedes that Hammond was no dud; experts often get things wrong and a fresh pair of eyes can be valuable. Hammond also had obvious political skills....
...In a House of Lords debate in April, former Tory minister Lord Theodore Agnew said the current rules limited disclosure to the “name of the trustee”, restricting the public’s knowledge of who ultimately...
...What happened next was that Philip Hammond — a former chancellor whose political impact is criminally underrated in my view — delivered a series of more expansive budgets in 2017-19, while Sajid Javid’s...
...Lord Philip Hammond, a former Tory chancellor, says doing politics in an era of low growth and little money is “very difficult”....
...Sinoscepticism is increasingly dominant within the Tory party, and there are important and distinct reasons why the UK is never going to be able to be as friendly to China as its European peers....
...The sacking of Scholar last autumn was widely criticised, with former Tory chancellor Philip Hammond saying he was “alarmed” about the growing trend for incoming prime ministers to fire senior civil servants...
...That went further than many Tory MPs had expected and beyond what Brussels had said would be possible. Tory criticism of the deal is still possible, however....
...But the proposals have been contentious and the passage of the bill beset by infighting, which has split MPs in Tory heartlands, who are broadly opposed to easing rules, from those in the “red wall” seats...
...A company linked to the husband of Tory party peer Baroness Michelle Mone paid nearly £10mn for a townhouse in one of London’s most exclusive areas in late 2020, months after a medical goods supplier with...
...Osborne’s successor, Philip Hammond, was a curious political throwback: economically and socially conservative, a defender of the UK’s membership of the single market, he was in many ways the Tory party’...
...Tory MPs have consistently shown that they don’t want to pay for tax cuts....
...As a one-time City high-flyer and former chancellor who guided the Treasury through the Covid crisis, the incoming prime minister — who won the Tory party’s leadership contest on Monday — commands widespread...
...Would Wycherley be voting Tory when the next general election comes around? “No I won’t. They need to be taught a lesson,” he said....
...This is a party that has, since the UK voted to leave the EU, voted against the spending cuts of Philip Hammond, rejected the tax rises of Sunak, driven itself towards the tax-cutting excess of Kwarteng...
...This column by a former senior adviser to two chancellors, Philip Hammond and Sajid Javid, does not mention the environment once....
...Expect more bitter rows and more public division among Tory politicians over immigration and border control as the week wears on....
...Lord Philip Hammond, a former Tory chancellor, is a partner. The deal excludes Amey’s waste treatment business and Ferrovial expects to make a capital gain of €50mn....
...The writer, a former senior adviser to UK chancellors Philip Hammond and Sajid Javid, is a partner at Flint Global; he writes in a personal capacity Boris Johnson’s government has been fundamentally “un-Conservative...
...Philip Hammond, former Tory chancellor, told LBC’s Andrew Marr on Friday: “We need labour in the UK, whether we like it or not, if our economy is going to prosper....
...Lord Philip Hammond, former Tory chancellor, said: “I’m afraid we’ve thrown away years and years of painstaking work to build and maintain a reputation as a party of fiscal discipline and competence in government...
...One leading rebel Tory MP said: “Gove seems to have worked hard to listen to what backbenchers have had to say on this.”...
...Lord Philip Hammond, former Tory chancellor, said he was “disappointed but not surprised” to see Scholar ousted....
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