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Northern Tory MP Jake Berry backs Gove over tight grip on spending
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The chair of an influential group of MPs has echoed comments made by the cabinet minister Michael Gove, who has warned the UK must maintain control of public finances in the face of “tough times ahead” for the country...
Meadows texts reveal just how tight the Fox News-Trump embrace is
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Through the end of 2020 and the early part of 2021, as Donald Trump’s political world fell apart in the wake of his election loss, the former US president was receiving advice and aid from a range of sources. As Trump...
The tight web of lawyers and PR firms who oil the wheels for billionaires
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In November 2017, a bank with close links to the Kremlin was revealed to have funded a £140m investment in Twitter. The share acquisition made by DST Global, founded by the Russian-born billionaire Yuri Milner, was fi...
Adrian Chiles’s Christmas Strictly diary: ‘Unused to my tight outfit, I didn’t get low enough for the lift …’
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My invitation to appear on Strictly Come Dancing’s Christmas Special came very late. Being a cynical soul, I assumed someone had dropped out, but I’m warmly assured this wasn’t the case. I am nobody’s idea of a dancer...
Japan’s race for new prime minister kicks off with tight battle for leadership
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The campaign to become Japan’s next prime minister has kicked off, with four candidates vying for leadership of the ruling party in an unusually close race. The candidates include two women hoping to lead a country th...
Covid jabs for UK children: a very tight decision that could be overruled
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It was, the scientists said, a very finely balanced decision. On the one hand, Covid vaccines undoubtedly help to reduce infection and illness. On the other, Covid vaccines – like every other vaccine in medical histor...
Tight restrictions planned for unjabbed Germans to avert new Covid wave
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Germany’s health minister is planning to introduce sweeping measures next month that could considerably restrict the lives of people who do not get a coronavirus vaccine, according to widespread reports. Jens Spahn ha...
Tight policy not the right policy, says Bank of England expert
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The Bank of England would risk choking off recovery with an over-hasty tightening of policy to combat a temporary rise in inflation, one of its policymakers has said. Prof Jonathan Haskel, one of the eight members of ...
Bristol City’s Mastrantonio levels late at Villa to keep WSL relegation fight tight
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Ella Mastrantonio’s last-gasp equaliser rescued a 2-2 draw for Bristol City and denied fellow strugglers Aston Villa a crucial Women’s Super League victory. The hosts opened the scoring in just the third minute as Fr...
This budget will prolong the Tories’ vaccine bounce: for now, Labour must sit tight Polly Toynbee
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Rishi Sunak will have a glorious day on Wednesday. Nothing will ever be as perfect as this budget – bounty will flow and yet he will proclaim himself a traditional, tight-fisted, low-tax Conservative chancellor. In t...