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...Treasury knows that and takes advantage,” said Tony Travers professor of government at the London School of Economics. “If more councils fell over, they might get more money.”...
...“This has loaded the cuts into the most visible parts of where people judge the state,” said Tony Travers, professor in the department of government at the London School of Economics....
...Bardoe as the goofy Spanish braggart Don Armado (in wincingly tight shorts) and Nathan Foad as the dim-witted but ever game Costard who run away with every scene they’re in, together with notable Holofernes Tony...
...Tony Travers, professor in the government department at the London School of Economics, said such an approach to tackling the chronic funding gap was “not normal good government and very bad practice”....
...Tony Travers, professor of public policy at the London School of Economics, said it would be politically “impossible for Labour not to put in more money.”...
...Many of the party’s MPs fear a backlash in the previously safe seat of Rochdale when residents head to the polls on February 29 in a vote triggered by the death of veteran Labour MP Tony Lloyd....
...But it formed part of wider discussions within the government of then prime minister Tony Blair about the use of “nuclear options” to reduce the record numbers of people seeking asylum in the UK at the time...
...The poll on February 29 was called after the death last month of the serving Labour MP, Tony Lloyd, a veteran party figure viewed with affection by colleagues and many local voters....
...An ultimately doomed plan for compulsory ID cards was backed by Tony Blair two decades ago despite senior colleagues warning the scheme was a potential “disaster” that would draw comparisons with “Big Brother...
...Bookmakers have now installed George Galloway, the firebrand former Labour MP, as the new favourite to win the Rochdale contest on February 29, which was triggered by the death of Sir Tony Lloyd last month...
...And if the Labour majority is smaller than expected — and remember Starmer’s party needs a bigger swing than Tony Blair achieved in his 1997 landslide to win a majority — then Labour will have to make the...
...The by-election campaign blew up into controversy within days of the vote being declared following the death of sitting MP Tony Lloyd....
...Ed Balls, an economic adviser in Tony Blair’s incoming Labour government in 1997, says the situation that Starmer will inherit will be far worse than the one that Blair faced....
...With the exception of London, which has had an elected mayor since Tony Blair’s foray into devolution, all these mayoralties have their roots in a single political arm-twist merely a decade old....
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...Which post has been held by William Shawn, Tina Brown and David Remnick? Which post has been held by Alasdair Milne, Michael Checkland and Mark Thompson?...
...Ukraine’s War of Independence by Yaroslav Trofimov, Penguin Press £25.11/$32, 400 pages Putin’s Exiles: Their Fight For a Better Russia by Paul Starobin, Columbia Global Reports £12.99/$17, 126 pages Tony...
...You can find me at tony.barber@ft.com. Striking a blow at the west Regarding the war in Ukraine, we should keep in mind that Putin has more than one aim....
...Hernández, whose brother Tony was sentenced to life in prison for drug trafficking charges in 2021, will be sentenced in June and could also spend the rest of his life in prison....
...Harvey Redgrave, home affairs lead at the Tony Blair Institute think-tank, said that if the recent recruitment of 20,000 police officers led to an increase in charge rates, the court system would not be...
...Blair and former Conservative leader Lord William Hague have called for all citizens to have digital identification cards, in an echo of the physical ID cards that he tried and failed to introduce when he...
...“Sweden now has the deepest capital markets in Europe,” said William Wright, co-founder of markets think-tank New Financial....
...Sunak will promise to break the “30-year-old political status quo” — an attempt to argue that administrations such as John Major’s Tory government and Tony Blair’s Labour regime were part of a failed system...
...Bookmaker William Hill has Labour at 4/11 to win the seat, which fell vacant after the death last month of Labour MP Tony Lloyd, with Galloway, who is standing for the Workers party, at 2-1....
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