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  • ...their election in 1997 when they appointed former chair of BP David Simon (Lord Simon of Highbury) to a position in the Department of Trade and Industry (D
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  • ...esperson stated that the body would consider his application in the coming weeks. ...dow Chancellor of the Exchequer, support for my office is received from: [[Lord Harris of Peckham]], Mr [[S Robertson]], of London
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  • Gove was Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice from May 2015 to July 2016 bu ...r's Office, 15 July 2014.</ref> After the 2015 general election, he became Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice.<ref name="2015Apptmts">[http
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  • [[Image:James_sassoon_low_Treasury.jpg‎|thumb|right|350px|Lord Sassoon]] Lord '''James Sassoon''' was appointed as the first Commercial Secretary to the ...m-treasury.gov.uk/profile_comsec.htm Commercial Secretary to the Treasury: Lord Sassoon], HM Treasury website, accessed 5 October 2011 </ref>
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  • ...publication was backed by an unlikely ally in [[James Callaghan|James (now Lord) Callaghan]], who was Prime Minister when the document was updated in 1976. ...interest come into collision'.10 This advice was extravagantly ignored. [[Lord Selborne]] was Under-Secretary at the Colonial Office while remaining a dir
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  • ...e defection "odd". It had come on the eve of a by-election in Uxbridge 12 weeks after the Labour landslide victory.<ref>Joy Copley (1997) [http://www.teleg ...n Hindley]], Director: [[Robert Oulds]]. Former Chairmen have included [[Lord Harris]] of High Cross and Professor [[Kenneth Minogue]].
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  • ...ed to the Treasury - that 40 companies had lobbied Brown in the past three weeks. The battle lines are drawn: the mixing tax has become the anvil on which n ...chief executive of [[BP]], Sir [[Philip Watts]], chairman of [[Shell]], [[Lord Blyth]], chairman of [[Diageo]], Sir [[John Bond]], chairman of [[HSBC]], S
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  • ...associated with Goschen at the Treasury, Cromer in Egypt and Hicks-Beach (Lord St Aldwyn) and Sir William Vernon Harcourt while at the Inland Revenue, mar ...ty, and [[Joseph Chamberlain]], now colonial secretary, selected Milner as Lord Rosmead's successor. The choice was cordially approved by the leaders of th
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  • ...bert Laws]] (of the ship owners' association); [[Arthur Balfour]] (later [[Lord Riverdale]] and perhaps the leading Sheffield steel manufacturer) and Sir [ ...sult of its good fortune in acquiring the German Naval codes within twelve weeks of the outbreak of war. But most of the credit for the Naval Intelligence's
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  • ...hn Makgill]], tenth baronet, and Margaret Isabella Haldane, half sister to Lord Haldane. On the death of his father Makgill registered his claim to the lap ...he Privy Council. In the following December the Court of King's Bench (the Lord Chief Justice and justices Avory and Lush) delivered judgment, directing th
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  • ...nt any more than in 1978 the [[Anti-Nazi League]] was, after its first few weeks, an exclusively [[Socialist Workers Party]] organisation, or more recently ...ty promised there would be no victimisation of the "mutineers". But within weeks of the strike, following a joint investigation by Naval Intelligence and [[
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  • ...agent running section, and his second in command, [[John Bingham]] (later Lord Clanmorris), certainly took up this position after Knight left the service. Two weeks later [[Cathy Massiter]], a former F Branch officer, wrote a letter to ''Ne
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  • ...cher]]/[[Keith Joseph|Joseph]] [[Centre for Policy Studies]], together was Lord [[Nicholas Cayzer]]. Cayzer was "British and Commonwealth Shipping", a vete Within weeks of the announcement of the League's demise the ''Sunday Times'' revealed th
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  • ...e [[Country Sports Business Group]], but changed its name after only a few weeks. {{ref|3}} It was founded by American-born corporate lawyer [[Eric Bettelhe ...ly as a group to campaign on rural issues other than bloodsports. Sir, now Lord [[David Steel]] was its first chairman, and received £93,752 for his effor
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  • ...w.corporatewatch.org.uk/content/tesco-plc- Interim Statement of Results 24 weeks 9 August 2003, More Customers Choose Tesco] ''Corporate Watch'', accessed 1 ...ng 315m new shares <ref> [From Tesco's preliminary statement of results 53 weeks ended 28 February 2004] </ref> , and in March 2004 announced a joint ventur
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  • 2004 (53 weeks) £33,557m 2004 (52 weeks pro forma) £32,989m
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  • ...sidies, Tesco director, Lucy Neville-Rolfe and former Northern Foods boss, Lord Chris Haskins co-wrote a policy document for think-tank the Foreign Policy ...rced to work 84-hour weeks on the minimum wage, often with no days off for weeks at a time. When the remaining workers went on strike, they were threatened
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  • ...gures including [[Peter Mandelson]], [[Greg Dyke]], [[Trevor Phillips]], [[Lord Bragg]] and [[Charles Leadbetter]] ([[Demos]]). Gerry Robinson was Chairman ...a believer in 'enlightened capitalism' (whatever that is). He takes 2 or 3 weeks holiday every 3 months.
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  • ...scotland.gov.uk/News/Releases/1998/10/e8961612-2bdd-4c37-b9eb-bbdc5abcc99b Lord Macdonald opens city refrigeration call centre - Rutherglen] 19/10/1998 New ...tracted £16.5m from Scottish Executive coffers. The revelation comes just weeks after Haughey's gifts to Labour topped £1m. Last night opposition MSPs cal
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  • He noted that just a few weeks prior to the appointment Michael Howard had accused Campbell on <i>Newsnigh ...should we believe that the Trust's funders — such as political lobbyist, Lord Stevenson, who has gone on record suggesting that ordinary people would not
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