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  • ...ce International]] founder [[Agha Hasan Abedi]], and British businessman [[Lord Kagan]], as well as a number of members of the South African [[Broederbond] However, a few weeks later Bernhard asked the adminstrator of the [[1001 Club]] to transfer £50
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  • ...|Bolland]] tagged his mission Operation PB after Parker Bowles and within weeks of his appointment he began undermining her previous press advisor [Kilkenn ==Lord Ashcroft==
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  • * [[Austin Mitchell]] | [[Lord Lipsey]] | [[Derek Wyatt]] | [[Don Foster]] | [[Peter Bottomley]] | [[Roger The letter came several weeks after the Met Office put out a tender for a lobbying firm, specifying that
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  • ...bed how the “NIA descended on Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester for 3 weeks of engagement with politicians, grassroots party members and other organisa At the 2010 Energy Choices conference, the then Energy Minister [[Lord Hunt]] said: “I must commend the work of the NIA in helping to get the po
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  • ...pe]], who heads the Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology, and [[Lord Jenkin]] of Roding who offered their very positive impressions on the eveni :A couple of weeks ago [[Tony Cooper]] and I met [[Philip Dewhurst]] and Ipek to go through N
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  • ...001.<ref>BBC,[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/1476300.stm "Profile: Lord Haskins"]. </ref>He is also Chairman of the Government's [[Better Regulatio ...sionately pro-GM.<ref> BBC, [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/1834181.stm "Lord Haskins criticises GM opposition"], 21 Feb 2002. </ref>He has repeatedly sp
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  • *[[Arthur Balfour]] The leading Sheffield steel manufacturer, became Lord Riverdale ...es; Sir [[Vincent Caillard]], of Vickers; [[Lord Gainford]], coal owner; [[Lord Invernairn]]; Sir Allan Smith, chairman of the Engineering Employers Federa
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  • LORD FALCONER OF THOROTON (Lord Chancellor) ** Elliot Morley, who had been sacked as the environment minister two weeks before also said publicly that building new nuclear reactors would cost the
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  • ...consortium allegedly paid another £200,000 to the official's account. Two weeks later, they signed the contract to build another dam, worth £41m.{{ref|67} ...Downie]], Sir [[Robert Davidson]]*, [[R Henderson]] (Finance Director), [[Lord Howe of Aberavon]] QC., [[C Painter]], [[C Reeves]]*, [[U Stark]]*, [[M Wel
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  • ...quarters in central London, and the opening was attended by Thatcher and [[Lord Robertson of Port Ellen]], then secretary general of Nato. Its early work f ...ell as representatives from the arms trade. [[Anthony Buzzard]] and [[Lord Weeks]] both worked at the private arms company Vickers which were a major custom
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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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  • ...eacher tablets.Teachers (all high school graduates) are provided with five weeks training before entering classrooms. ...t schools minister, [[Nick Gibb]]; he was before that private secretary to Lord [[Andrew Adonis]], former Labour education minister. In January 2016, Cunni
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  • ...y Council Chief, [[Sue Bruce]] joined forces with the energy company. Just weeks before the firm went into talks with the council over the renewal of energy ...e Director of 3i Group plc, Standard Bank Group Limited, and Aegon UK plc. Lord Smith was formerly Chief Executive of Morgan Grenfell Asset Management Limi
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  • *[[Brendan O'Neill]], [http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/6783/ 'Six weeks for Saddam...again'], ''Spiked'', 4 February 2003. ...ewsite/article/lord_rennard_and_the_cannibalisation_of_the_lib_dems/14545 'Lord Rennard and the cannibalisation of the Lib Dems'], ''Spiked'', 21 January 2
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  • ...0 tonnes from gas and 900 tonnes from coal. I add, in case the noble Lord, Lord Lawson, is listening somewhere, that climate change is not the only reason ...is needed if we are to respond to Britain's needs and, as the noble Lord, Lord Jenkin, said, if we are to exploit the rise of nuclear power elsewhere in t
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  • ...d a £3,000 advance by [[Weidenfeld & Nicolson]] to write a biography of [[Lord Halifax]]. It was this opportunity which he decided to take up.<ref>David T ...alman Rushdie. But his liberalism does not extend to Northern Ireland. Two weeks ago he was revealed as being associated with a group called the [[Friends o
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  • Murray began researching his biography of Oscar Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, while still at Eton. Aged only 16, he persuaded the [[Home ::His first book, ''Bosie: A Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas'', was published in 2000 by Hodder and Stoughton (UK) and Mi
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  • ...inimum length of the maternity leave on full pay be extended from 14 to 20 weeks?</td> *Government Whip and Lord Commissioner to the Treasury (1990-1995).
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  • ...trading arm had already been incorporated as private limited companies six weeks earlier, on 22 December 2006. * The Rt Hon The [[Lord Macfarlane of Bearsden]] KT
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  • ...at least two of any 12 jurors (whose names and addresses are listed three weeks in advance) could be intimidated into voting on sectarian lines to produce :In his report, Lord Diplock encouraged the most sinister threats of torture (Para. 90): ''It wo
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  • Mark Urban quotes [[Lord Carver]] as stating: "For some time various surveillance operations by sold ...'Bomb Squad'. The name Mobile Reconnaissance Force was only given several weeks after the soldiers had begun to operate.<ref>Big Boys Rules by Mark Urban,
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  • ...nloaded. The SAS men were tried and acquitted of murder, but the judge, [[Lord Lowry]], declared that he was unable to decide if Boyle had picked up the r ...y a police officer (Curtis 1984a; Stalker 1988; Urban 1992). Within a few weeks the RUC also killed INLA members [[Seamus Grew]] and [[Roddy Carroll]]. Th
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  • ...eeting with Mr. Lugovoi on his trips to London for several months, and two weeks earlier had brought him to [[Erinys International]], one of the security co ::At the hospital, Mr. Berezovsky's PR consultant, Lord [[Tim Bell]], began briefing journalists, arranging interviews, and supplyi
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  • ...no support for this objection. He did not raise it at the AGM a couple of weeks later. He resigned by not renewing his membership. ...British Labour Party in 1999, after a report by former General Secretary [[Lord Sawyer|Tom Sawyer]] concluded the party should not organise in Northern Ire
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  • ...nd and emigrated to the United States in 1978. Jeremy gave his life to the Lord in 1976. He became an American citizen in 1998 and voted in his first gener ...few weeks about the initial complaint, the site was taken down. But a few weeks later, it returned under a new name. Reynalds informed CNN about this and t
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  • *HM Deputy Lord Lieutenant for Greater London *HM Deputy Lord Lieutenant for Greater London
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  • ...tors, Berkshire Citizens Inspection Agency and Liberty, Casualty of War: 8 Weeks of Counter Terrorism in Rural England, July 2003 (accessed 11 August 2018). A lengthy legal battle ensued, with a final House of Lord's judgement concluding that the police had unlawfully detained them, and ha
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  • ...r 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]
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  • The letter came several weeks after the Met Office put out a tender for a lobbying firm, specifying that ...ge.com/accountancyage/features/2183976/profile-lord-clement-jones Profile, Lord Clement-Jones], Accountancy Age</ref><br>
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  • Lord '''Ed Llewellyn''' served as chief of staff to the former UK prime minister ...or-just/ David Cameron's former chief of staff made French Ambassador just weeks after receiving a peerage], ''The Telegraph'', 23 September 2016, accessed
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  • ...for months while Israel had only been fighting in Lebanon for the past few weeks.<ref>Hilary Leila Krieger, British Jews fear backlash, ''Jerusalem Post'', ...Guido Fawkes, [[Gabriel Milland]] was Head of Media at BICOM for just six weeks in 2010, while Lib Dem [[Ed Fordham]] worked there for only a month.<ref>[h
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