David Cameron’s re-shuffle: PM is putting together his first all-Conservative cabinet May 9, 2015 After the stress of the General Election, no rest for the victor. David Cameron will spend the weekend putting the finishing touches to his first all-Tory cabinet. Some names are already known: George Osborne will remain as chancellor, and will also get the title first secretary of state. Theresa May and Phillip Hammond, the home [...]
Airbus A320 Germanwings Flight 4U9525: British nationals among those killed says defence secretary Phillip Hammond March 24, 2015 Foreign secretary Phillip Hammond has said it is "sadly likely" British National were among those killed in the Germanwings A320 passenger plane crash in France today. Hammond said he would not speculate as to how many Britons may have died before the information could be confirmed. This came after French rescue workers discovered a flight recorder [...]
Forget the Old Etonian chumocracy: The Tories are at their least aristocratic ever June 16, 2013 DAVID Cameron’s government is the least patrician, least wealthy and least public school-educated Conservative-led government Britain has ever seen. Fewer Tory MPs were born into wealth and privilege than ever before. More are reliant solely on parliamentary salaries, and fewer have significant outside earnings compared to Tory MPs from previous parliaments. This is not the [...]
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY AS CITY FIRMS RUN… AND RUN April 17, 2011 HOGAN Lovells partner Richard Tyler will be walking down the stairs sideways for the next three days after completing yesterday’s physically and mentally exhausting 26.2 mile Virgin Money London Marathon. “Towards the end of the race you end up running not much faster than you can walk because your legs wind down like a spring,” [...]
Braced for the worst, we watched as Boy George’s voice finally broke June 22, 2010 AFTER months of playing with imaginary numbers, yesterday will go down as the day little Boy George grew up. Gone was the silky blue bowtie and tails of his youth as he took the floor, hunched over his brief. Gone were the floppy curls of dark hair in favour of a sensible brush to the [...]
Labour accused over insolvencies January 24, 2010 THE TORIES yesterday accused the government of causing over half of the insolvencies since the start of the recession. The government handed out 3,500 winding-up orders in 2008-09, the Tory party said, citing figures from the Insolvency Service. That amounts to around 60 per cent of 6,000 businesses that were made insolvent. Most of the [...]
FORSALE: 16BN OF UK STATE HOLDINGS October 11, 2009 PRIME Minister Gordon Brown will today signal a programme of asset sales intended to reduce the government’s debt mountain as part of his campaign to demonstrate he is dealing with the problems facing the UK economy. Speaking today in the City, Brown will announce plans to sell upwards of £16bn of non-financial assets, including the [...]