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...CABOFF [Cabinet Office] is terrifyingly shit, no plans, totally behind pace, me and Warners and Lee/Slacky are having to drive and direct....
...The claims included those from Lee Cain, former Downing Street head of communications, who said Johnson had “oscillated” on key decisions, and Dominic Cummings, his former chief adviser, who described him...
...Dominic Cummings, former chief adviser to former prime minister Boris Johnson, sent messages to former head of communications Lee Cain complaining Johnson had gone “back to Jaws mode wank” and was “saying...
...Boris Johnson did not believe Covid was a “big deal” in March 2020, according to WhatsApp messages sent by Lee Cain, the former UK prime minister’s former communications chief....
...Lee Cain told the Covid inquiry Johnson was a “challenging character to work with” because he would “oscillate” and “take a decision from the last person in the room”....
...In WhatsApp messages sent after the meeting, Lee Cain, then Downing Street’s head of communications, told Cummings that Johnson did not believe the virus was a “big deal” and thought “his main danger [was...
...Lee Cain, former Downing Street head of communications, said Johnson was “challenging . . . to work with”, “oscillated” on key policy choices and took “a decision from the last person in the room”....
...In a WhatsApp message to Lee Cain, then Downing Street’s head of communications, in October 2020, weeks before England’s second lockdown, Johnson wrote: “I must say I have been slightly rocked by some of...
...Lee Cain, Johnson’s former communications chief, and Cummings are due to testify on Tuesday....
...“I haven’t seen Ratatouille, but having worked with rats for a long time they do look like they are focusing and thinking,” said Lee....
...Ted Hughes destroyed some of Sylvia Plath’s journals: an act of protection or of desecration?...
...For Chambers, the ideal look is interior designer Tobias Vernon’s town house in Bath. “It’s just a mix that I love,” she says....
...His name was Gordon Lee, a gentle, enthusiastic talker of 83 and the shop’s proprietor for the past 41 years. “When I first brought my mother here, she said it took her back to the 1930s,” he told us....
...His tribute collage “Mrs Bendolph” (2002), hangs opposite Mary Lee Bendolph’s labyrinthine “housetop” quilt “Burgle Boys” (2007)....
...Conditions at the heritage-heavy Hôtel Vernon are clearly quite different. “Of course, in a building of this age there are laws and restrictions,” says Lee....
...Happy Valley’s locale is notable for the brutal beauty of the landscape that inspired poet Ted Hughes, former mill towns scarred by industrial decline, and the humour and idioms of its characters....
...Hughes begins by being very funny, darting mischievous, split-second asides into the audience. But his callousness becomes breathtaking....
...Lee did not immediately respond to a request for comment....
...The rebels gathered twice this week to discuss their disquiet over Johnson’s leadership, with Kearns’s office — which she shares with Lee Anderson, MP for Ashfield — used for a meeting on Tuesday....
...It’s happening to Sunak about as much as to Biden, as any by-election would show.” — FT reader Martin Hughes...
...We have repeatedly had to adapt our response,” Lee said....
...Coatue and other cub-run funds such as Lee Ainslie’s Maverick Capital and Andreas Halvorsen’s Viking have also been dabbling in private markets....
...She points to Gucci’s signature horsebit accessories and Daniel Lee’s interpretation of Bottega Veneta’s intrecciato weave – particularly in the oversized version on shoes and bags – as classic pieces that...
...“It’s not the biggest studio in town,” said Thomas Hughes from film and TV rights platform Vuulr, and a former MGM executive. “Does it change the face of Hollywood because MGM is being bought?...
...Liam Griffin, chief executive of Addison Lee, which runs a fleet of 4,000 cars in central London for courier and taxi services, said it was facing increasing “challenges”....
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