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...Vanessa Nakate, a Ugandan climate activist, said: “We cannot have another COP where fossil fuel interests are allowed to sacrifice our futures to eke out another few years of profit.”...
...Some renowned portraitists, such as Jonathan Yeo, who has painted everyone from Dennis Hopper to Tony Blair, have been working via Zoom – opening up the sitting experience to a much wider audience....
...Prominent figures from the arts world to be recognised include actresses Joanna Lumley and Vanessa Redgrave, who will both become dames for their services to drama, entertainment and charity....
...With guests ranging from Tony Blair to Angelina Jolie, their events became the closest thing New York had to a Washington political salon....
...Tony Blair in his first year introduced the minimum wage and gave independence to the Bank of England. Gordon Brown nationalised Northern Rock. And David Cameron laid the basis for free schools....
...He also argued that this tax gap was one key driver of the growth of self-employment, citing the support of several think-tanks and Matthew Taylor, the former adviser to Tony Blair, who is running a government...
...I met Alistair Campbell, Tony Blair's former head of communications, who has spoken openly about his battle with depression, and Oliver James, a psychologist, to discuss this....
...Tony Blair was on sort of tenterhooks for a long time, whether he'd be indeed first as well....
...Nielsen, a market research company, said the last time its measure of consumer confidence in Britain outstripped the global average was in the first quarter of 2006, when Tony Blair was in his third term...
...Under the “light-touch” approach to regulation introduced by Tony Blair’s Labour government, HMRC adopted a “collaborative” approach to dealing with big business and the rich, and drew criticism that senior...
...Tony Blair, the former Labour prime minister, welcomed footloose international executives to London during the last decade and saw Britain’s attractive tax regime as a means of bringing investment to the...
...Tax relief on private medical insurance for the over-60s was consigned to history by Tony Blair in 1997....
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...Vanessa Friedman, former fashion editor at the FT, noted that what sets Mr Bailey apart in an “industry of divas” is not that he is gay, but that he is “famously nice, famously normal, famously un-diva-like...
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...Additional reporting by Vanessa Houlder...
...And neither of Mrs C’s predecessors, Sarah Brown or Cherie Blair, did anywhere near as much for the industry either. Indeed, by comparison to all of the above, Mrs Cameron is a mega-fashionista....
...He is famously close to Tony Blair (they play tennis together), and LVMH also has a ‘leadership school” in London known as — surprise!...
...in the south of France sporting baggy swim shorts and a bigger belly than his proudly pregnant and black-bikini-clad-wife Carla Bruni; or Barack Obama, shirtless in the surf in Hawaii in 2008; or Tony Blair...
...In other words, it’s only a matter of time before Bill Clinton and Tony Blair figure it out and join the show. Anyone want to give me some odds?...
...The pair are 28 points clear of New Zealand’s Peter Burling and Blair Tuke, who are assured of silver as they are 32 points ahead of Denmark....
...Tessa Jowell, shadow Olympics minister, convinced Tony Blair when he was prime minister to support the bid in the face of fierce opposition within the cabinet....
...Such was the case when Gordon Brown first came to see Barack Obama, for example (both did that dark suit,blue tie thing), and such was often the case with Tony Blair and George W. Bush....
...“I think the mood on this has changed,” Tony Blair, former prime minister, told the BBC....
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