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...Jim PickardThere have been an awful lot of U-turns....
...The comments come after Sir Keir Starmer, Labour leader, dropped his pledge to spend £28bn annually on green infrastructure, raised almost entirely from borrowing, if the party wins the general election...
...Starmer finally dismantled the plan on Thursday after the party had spent several months rowing back on its original commitment to spend £140bn during its first five years in office should it win the general...
...with companies: Australia’s Lynas, which received concessional financing from Japanese government entities, reached one with Japan’s Sojitz conglomerate, while MP Materials in the US signed a deal with General...
...Marissa Grobler, consul general of Namibia to UAE, was caught in the centre of the storm’s destructive impact in the desert region between the cities of Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Al Ain....
...A Conservative spokesperson said: “The prime minister was saying there were a lot of U-turns that the leader of the opposition has been making, I don’t think those U-turns are a joke, these are serious changes...
...“It was just a party political stunt because the SNP are struggling in the polls and by making a bold announcement to freeze council tax, they think that will buy votes for the 2024 general election,” said...
...Labour’s U-turn on its £28bn-a-year green spending plan was “madness” from a climate perspective and economically “illiterate”, said Neil Gray, Scotland’s new health secretary....
...The Tories seized on the U-turn....
...But between now and then there’ll be a British general election, there’ll be European elections next year as well....
...The influential House of Commons Treasury select committee — whose chair Harriett Baldwin had described HMRC’s plans as a “great shame” — welcomed the U-turn, saying “common sense has prevailed”....
...A meeting with the Russian consul in Leipzig and the two plotters of the group in charge of weapons procurement was scheduled for December, but never went ahead because the plot was uncovered first....
...But Starmer pinned the blame for his U-turn on constrained public finances resulting from the Conservatives’ stewardship and insisted Labour would still deliver on its promise to build a green economy if...
...“Upon a fuller assessment, we’ve withdrawn our [emergency general meeting] request....
...He did a U-turn on TikTok, now saying its Chinese parent company should retain ownership....
...That view resonates with Ken Keen, who retired as a lieutenant general after 38 years in the US army....
...“Interference with personal lives and business activities by accusing individuals of being pro-Japan is prevalent in China, and this shows there is a general fondness for such content on Chinese social media...
...In the run-up to the UK general election, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is braced for repeated claims by his political opponents that he has “flip-flopped” and “U-turned” on countless policies....
...By contrast, in the US, the past decades have been marked by soft enforcement, in particular in digital....
...He’s the man who controls the purse strings,” said Gerry Murphy, assistant general secretary at the Irish Congress of Trade Unions....
...But on Thursday, those same claims were echoed by US attorney-general Merrick Garland....
...Ecclestone had given £1mn to the Labour party before the 1997 general election....
...But Cowen’s U-turn is striking....
...But if New Hampshire has given Biden the general election rival he wanted, he has to run a general election campaign starting now....
...As you can see from this recent example, these notifications can often be framed in ways that favour one party or another (this is about the most favourable read possible on why Keir Starmer U-turned)....
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