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...Lord Vernon Coaker, a Labour peer, also fiercely criticised the legislation, saying the new measures in the bill would have been “unthinkable” a few years ago....
...Former Metro Bank chair Vernon Hill is asking a federal court to block a move by his boardroom adversaries to oust him as chair of the US bank Republic First Bancorp....
...Other recipients include cabinet ministers such as chancellor Rishi Sunak (£5,000 to his Richmond constituency) and chief secretary to the Treasury Simon Clarke (£20,000)....
...The call by Simon Coveney, Ireland’s foreign minister, for flexibility and pragmatism in the working of the Northern Ireland Protocol is very welcome (Report, February 17)....
...Vernon Bogdanor Professor of Government, King’s College, London WC2, UK...
...Letter in response to this article: Such a protocol would be anathema for any EU state / From Vernon Bogdanor, Professor of Government, King’s College, London WC2, UK...
...Simon Culhane: the City’s Dad’s Army Eighty years ago, as an isolated Britain faced the threat of invasion, old soldiers volunteered to form the Home Guard....
...But even as the blame game gathers pace, little direct criticism has so far accrued to the service and its chief executive Simon Stevens, who is known as a skilled operator in the Westminster jungle....
...Letters in response to this article: Civil servants are there to give unpalatable advice / From Vernon Bogdanor, Professor of Government, King’s College, London WC2, UK Nasa’s mission control centre is...
...In a different, jarring key I’m enjoying Virginie Despentes’ Vernon Subutex 3, the final instalment in her savage reckoning with contemporary France....
...Vernon Hill: Courting trouble Vernon Hill did himself no favours in a Delaware courtroom this week....
...We are speaking via phone because Ruby is based in Vernon, California, roughly five miles south of Los Angeles....
...Vernon Bogdanor, a leading constitutional historian, fears the worst for Whitehall....
...Donations for Mr Maloney have come from marquee Wall Street lawyers including Marty Lipton of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; and Rodgin Cohen of Sullivan & Cromwell; real estate executives like David Simon...
...Nielsen once tallied the books sold in the week before and after a Booker win — sales of DBC Pierre’s Vernon God Little went from 509 copies to 8,627 copies, a leap of 1,595 per cent....
...“There will be no withdrawal agreement without the backstop,” said Simon Coveney, Ireland’s deputy premier, last week. “End of story.”...
...Since 2008, Ruby has made studio workwear for himself with offcuts from fabric sculptures; in 2014 he collaborated with designer Raf Simons on a full collection of menswear....
...Photographs: Simon Vernon; Alex Ramsey; Burghley House/National Portrait Gallery; Burghley House; James Byatt; Anthony Pelly; Christopher Jeney; Cartography.co.uk...
...Vernon Baxter, head of the research magazine Health Investor, said: “The tendering process for contracts of this size is lengthy and ultimately very complex — and it’s not unusual for organisations to pull...
...The stamp’s first owner, Vernon Vaughan, a 12-year-old Scottish schoolboy, found it among family papers in 1873. He sold it for a few shillings to fellow Scot Neil McKinnon to buy more stamps....
...Lee Vernon, a 27-year old worker at HMRC, rising rents and below inflation pay rises are pushing him out of London....
...“While much attention has focused on how farm subsidies fuel our cheap, unhealthy food supply, Snap represents the largest, most overlooked corporate subsidy in the farm bill,” Michele Simon, president of...
...“The worst thing you can do with this type of building is to subdivide it horizontally – you would lose the volume and the light, says Simon Vernon-Harcourt, design and planning director at City and Country...
...The latter bank was founded in 1973 by the American entrepreneur Vernon Hill, one of the original investors in Metro Bank....
...purchase of greetings card maker Gibson Greetings – a famous early deal in the history of buyouts, in which Simon’s original $1m investment produced a profit of $80m....
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