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Good Financial institution Vacation Monday morning, and joyful New 12 months. That is Annabelle Dickson bringing you the primary London Playbook of the yr fueled by the remnants of a Cadbury’s Christmas choice field. I’ll be in your inbox Tuesday morning too.
Finish of vacation listening: In case you are simply tuning again into politics after an excellent festive break, Playbook suggests you dig out Jack Blanchard’s POLITICO Westminster Insider episode waiting for the large political tales coming down the observe in 2023. Evidently, it’s going to be one other massive yr. We’ve obtained extra 2023 predictions from the Economist’s mystic Tom Standage additional down at this time’s electronic mail too.
DRIVING THE DAY
IN POOR HEALTH: Rishi Sunak begins the yr with strain mounting on his authorities to spell out precisely how it will get a grip on the Nationwide Well being Service disaster. A declare from a senior emergency physician that as many a 500 sufferers every week could possibly be dying due to lengthy delays in casualty departments throughout the nation makes the entrance of lots of at this time’s papers, and is simply one of many big challenges the PM should grapple with this yr as he tries to win over voters.
‘500 every week’: The stark warning from Adrian Boyle, president of the Royal Faculty of Emergency Drugs, got here in a hard-hitting Occasions Radio interview on Sunday wherein he additionally warned of the necessity to “get a grip” of a state of affairs that’s each “unsafe” and “undignified.” You possibly can watch him make the feedback right here.
Emergency footing: Some well being leaders need a main incident, just like the one initially of the COVID-19 pandemic, to be declared. Tim Cooksley, president of the Society for Acute Drugs, was main the calls final night time. He says there must be “emergency motion, clear and common communication” and “pressing workforce plans.” He advised Sky Information the state of affairs was “a lot worse” than it had been even on the peak of the pandemic.
From the frontline: Shaun Lintern described within the Sunday Occasions how one affected person needed to wait 99 hours for a mattress final week, and a significantly sick baby was left sleeping on plastic chairs in A&E. The Liverpool Echo’s Liam Thorp is amongst a military of regional journalists who’ve additionally been reporting on the experiences of employees and sufferers in A&E departments throughout the nation over the brand new yr. Shadow Tradition Secretary Lucy Powell mentioned her emergency drugs physician husband reported an identical image to Boyle on his A&E shift final night time.
Not going to assist: And there’s one other wave of strikes coming. There are few indicators the walkouts deliberate this month shall be averted. Ambulance employees are as a result of strike once more on January 11 and 23, with nurses following swimsuit on January 18 and 19. Junior medical doctors shall be balloted from January 9 over their very own industrial motion. It’s no surprise Sunak warned in his New 12 months message over the weekend that Britain’s issues is not going to “go away” in 2023.
What’s your plan? Conservative MPs advised Playbook final night time the disaster could be vital, and a former minister mentioned the federal government needed to begin exhibiting it had a plan.
Media spherical newest: There have been no ministers out on the airwaves on Sunday, and no plans final night time for a minister to do media at this time, though it’s doubtless there shall be a authorities media spherical Tuesday. Parliament isn’t sitting once more till Monday. In a press release final night time, a Division of Well being and Social Care spokesperson insisted they acknowledged the strain the NHS is dealing with, and that they have been “working tirelessly to make sure folks get the care they want.” DHSC cited the £14.1 billion of additional funding for well being and social care over the subsequent two years, the additional £500 million allotted to hurry up hospital discharges, and the creation of seven,000 extra beds to assist scale back A&E waits.
Incoming: Sunak could say extra quickly. A Downing Avenue supply advised the Sunday Occasions the NHS was a “big private precedence” for the prime minister and that “we are going to hear extra from him within the new yr about tackling backlogs and guaranteeing the standard of take care of sufferers is the No. 1 precedence.” Downing Avenue factors to the promise of an pressing emergency and first care restoration plan within the new yr, made within the Autumn Assertion in November. No Downing Avenue grid slot for a keynote Sunak speech but although.
Work to do: The i paper has some well timed Opinium polling from Compassion In Politics suggesting that even Conservative voters overwhelmingly consider their celebration has failed in its administration of the NHS throughout its time in authorities, with 73 % of these surveyed indicating they thought NHS administration had been a failure within the final decade, in comparison with simply 16 % who mentioned it had been successful.
Political danger: Somebody who has noticed the hazard for Sunak within the NHS disaster is his new political secretary, the previous Speccie political editor James Forsyth. Again when he was a hack he wrote within the Occasions about the way it carried a better political danger for the brand new PM than the vitality disaster. “Voters know the Tories have been in energy for the previous dozen years and are subsequently answerable for its issues,” he mentioned. (H/t to the tenacious Occasions duo Steve Swinford and Chris Smyth for going again by the Forsyth archives.)
Not going to assist II: A report within the Guardian that the U.Ok. authorities desires to boost NHS salaries by solely 2 % subsequent yr just isn’t going to assist ease these hostilities between the unions and the federal government both. Varied unions and assume tanks reckon the truth that NHS England’s price range for 2023-24 has already been set suggests that’s the determine ministers are eager to see be awarded. DHSC insists to the paper it has not determined but what it could actually afford.
New hospitals newest: Work has solely began on seven of the 40 new hospitals promised by Boris Johnson on the final election, a Lib Dem parliamentary query has revealed. The Telegraph factors out the flagship coverage introduced by the ex-PM won’t be accomplished on time. In the meantime, Labour has uncovered figures suggesting personal psychological well being suppliers made £1.37 million a day from the NHS in 2020-21. The Mirror has the main points on these figures.
Justin time: Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby is planning to set out proposals for a way social care could possibly be fastened this month after utilizing his New 12 months message to make a rallying name for reform. The BBC has extra.
You’re kidding: It’s not simply the NHS disaster which goes to occupy Sunak’s time this yr. The PM might put himself on one other collision course along with his backbenchers amid studies within the Telegraph that he has “postponed indefinitely” Liz Truss’ “massive bang” plan to offer extra free hours of childcare and an finish to mandated staff-to-child ratios.
The numbers are in: Then there’s the small boat disaster. With 2022 at an finish we now know a complete of 45,756 migrants crossed the Channel to the U.Ok. final yr, with the ultimate crossing on Christmas Day, when 90 folks got here from France in two boats. Bookmark that quantity, as it might show to be vital if it doesn’t fall considerably in 2023. Sunak has made it a private mission to sort out the difficulty. The Telegraph studies Border Power officers have joined French seashore patrols for the primary time.
This week in strikes: And the rolling strikes look set to proceed with little signal of any decision. RMT members at Community Rail are out Tuesday, together with Rural Funds Company employees and Nationwide Highways visitors officers. They are going to all even be out on Wednesday and shall be joined by DVSA driving examiners in varied areas, and Abellio London bus employees. On Thursday, a 24-hour walkout of Aslef prepare employees begins with RPA, DVSA and bus employees persevering with their strikes. RMT employees shall be again out on strike for 48 hours on Friday together with Nationwide Highways employees within the East Midlands and jap England, and people will proceed into the weekend.
In for the lengthy haul: Mark Serwotka, the chief of the PCS union that represents border power officers, driving check examiners and civil servants, advised Occasions Radio final night time the union isn’t operating out of cash, and may “maintain strike motion nicely into the summer season.”
Thwarted: Sunak seems to be planning some kind of anti-strike legal guidelines quickly, though precisely how robust the brand new guidelines shall be is but to be seen. The Sunday Telegraph studies that whereas new guidelines for minimal staffing ranges would possibly come this month, extra contentious measures like an outright ban on strikes by firefighters and ambulance drivers might come a cropper within the courts and the the Home of Lords.
Extra new legal guidelines: ICYMI over the weekend, the Mirror’s Sophie Huskisson has a useful run-through of among the different regulation modifications coming this yr.
A uncommon glimmer of hope: Some cheering information for Sunak, who the Sunday Occasions says might but be saved if he can win again some “timid Tories.”
Coming attraction: Which may be why Labour chief Keir Starmer is planning to make a speech on Thursday setting out his stall, in accordance with HuffPost’s Kevin Schofield. Schofield has some fascinating tidbits concerning the significance being positioned on Could’s native election leads to Labour HQ, and orders to the shadow Cupboard to provide you with cost-free coverage concepts.
Shuffling the pack: The shad cab would possibly wish to consider them rapidly. The Occasions hears Starmer is mulling a reshuffle amid issues amongst senior Labour figures that some shadow ministers have didn’t make inroads of their briefs. There are hopes Hilary Benn would possibly return to the entrance bench, however promotions are extra doubtless for Sarah Jones, the shadow policing minister, Darren Jones, the chairman of the enterprise choose committee, and Stephen Morgan, the shadow colleges minister, the Occasions reckons.
Challenges forward: The Mirror’s Ash Cowburn has a very nice piece taking a look at among the hurdles forward for Starmer — from penning a manifesto to the way forward for his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn. The Solar on Sunday studies Starmer goes to “channel Tony Blair and unveil his very personal 1997-style pledge card.”
TODAY IN WESTMINSTER
PARLIAMENT: Nope. Not till January 9.
HAVING A BLAST: There’s a doubtlessly massive row brewing over whether or not there must be a taxpayer rescue of British Metal’s two blast furnaces. Sky Information says Cupboard colleagues Michael Gove and Grant Shapps have warned Chancellor Jeremy Hunt that British Metal “doesn’t have a viable enterprise with out authorities help.” The FT hears Hunt is contemplating their request for taxpayer assist, however a authorities official briefed on the talks tells the paper: “Hunt doesn’t wish to bail out a Chinese language firm with deep pockets.”
LET’S DO IT ALL AGAIN: Duck for canopy. The Indy has Savanta polling exhibiting almost two-thirds of Britons now help a referendum on rejoining the EU, and that opposition to a different vote has fallen.
MOTHER SUPPORT: Labour’s Liz Kendall has spoken to the Sunday Occasions’ Caroline Wheeler about her determination to discover a surrogate after quite a few miscarriages and failed IVF cycles. She desires to assist develop new insurance policies to help older moms, in addition to the brand new “sandwich era.” Watch this area.
EXTINCTION EX-REBELLION: The inexperienced agitators from Extinction Revolt’s U.Ok. department have a New 12 months’s decision: cease inflicting bother, my POLITICO colleague Karl Mathiesen emails to report. The local weather change protesters have run a four-year marketing campaign of non-violent public disruption — typically blocking roads and bridges and inflicting main complications for commuters and police. These actions have been mimicked and radicalized additional by teams like Simply Cease Oil. However the authorities has responded by introducing legal guidelines that concentrate on these sorts of protests and would doubtlessly land offenders in jail.
Who’s radical now? “In a time when talking out and taking motion are criminalised, constructing collective energy, strengthening in quantity and thriving by bridge-building is a radical act,” mentioned an XR press launch entitled “We Give up.” The group as an alternative desires to mobilize 100,000 folks for an April march. It’s onerous to see how that is something apart from a retreat for a company that initially aimed to overwhelm the state’s jail system with keen objectors. “This yr, we prioritise attendance over arrest and relationships over roadblocks, as we stand collectively and develop into unattainable to disregard,” the discharge mentioned. Will this be the final we hear of them?
WATCH LIST: Labour MP Charlotte Nichols has stood by her determination to share an inventory of 20 MPs alleged to have a intercourse pest fame. The Mail on Sunday studies she has “sparked fury” after sending the record to a bunch of Labour MPs elected in 2019. Nichols identified she didn’t have the power to make a third-party report. “Am I not meant to warn others about conduct I’ve seen, skilled or been advised about that many occasions by totally different those that it’s a transparent sample of behaviour? I’m many issues however a bystander isn’t one, and whereas Westminster is as grim as it’s I received’t faux in any other case,” she added.
Extra dangerous habits: “Sexually express graffiti” was discovered within the gents close to the Home of Commons Strangers bar, in accordance with parliament’s vandalism log obtained by the Press Affiliation. The Mirror has written up the story.
RESHUFFLE: James Youthful, an elected hereditary peer, has been made a junior minister on the Division for Work and Pensions and Tory peer Graham Evans has been made a Lords whip. It follows the departure from authorities of Deborah Stedman-Scott.
NUCLEAR FUEL EXPANSION: The federal government is to broaden U.Ok. nuclear gas manufacturing with as much as £75 million in funding to offer a substitute for Russian sources of vitality. Power and Local weather Minister Graham Stuart says the funding will again the federal government’s ambition to safe as much as 24GW of nuclear energy by 2050.
WALK THE WALK: £32.9 million may even be spent by the federal government on accelerating strolling and biking schemes to encourage folks to get match and lower your expenses. The federal government says the funding will assist native authorities in England design, develop and seek the advice of on high-quality lively journey schemes.
MIRROR ON MONE: An organization linked to Tory peer Michelle Mone’s husband pumped tens of 1000’s of kilos into the Conservative Occasion’s struggle chest, the Mirror’s Ben Glaze studies.
LABOUR PROMISES MORE ONLINE SAFETY: Robust legal guidelines defending kids from being bombarded with dangerous on-line materials could be launched as a high precedence if Labour wins energy, the celebration says. The opposition is planning to amend the On-line Security Invoice to one thing nearer to its unique kind, earlier than the federal government deserted plans to ban materials judged to be “authorized however dangerous.” Toby Helm has the main points within the Observer.
BEYOND THE M25
LONG GAME: Western nations should be ready to offer long-term help to Ukraine as Russia reveals no indicators of relenting, NATO’s Secretary-Common Jens Stoltenberg has advised the BBC. He mentioned the navy help would guarantee Ukraine’s survival as a sovereign nation and power Russia to barter an finish to the struggle.
Putin’s deal with: In an aggressive New 12 months’s speech, Russian President Vladimir Putin mentioned Russia was preventing in Ukraine to guard its “motherland” and referred to as 2022 “a yr of onerous, mandatory selections” and “fateful occasions” that may lay the foundations for Russia’s future and independence. The nine-minute message was the longest New 12 months’s deal with since Putin took energy over 20 years in the past. Putin claimed “the West lied about peace however was getting ready for aggression” and is “cynically utilizing Ukraine and its folks to weaken and divide Russia.” David L. Stern and Francesca Ebel have extra within the Washington Put up.
Zelenskyy’s comeback: Talking after Putin, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy advised Russians their president was destroying their nation and hiding behind his troops, not main them. The BBC’s Hugo Bachega and Robert Greenall have extra on that.
Prosecution name: Putin ought to go on trial this yr for struggle crimes in Ukraine, the lawyer who led the prosecution of former Serbian chief Slobodan Milošević has argued. Geoffrey Good advised the BBC Putin was responsible for assaults on civilian targets throughout the struggle and expressed stunned that politicians and prosecutors weren’t “spelling this out far more freely and brazenly.”
Missiles launched: This comes as Russia launched a wave of missile strikes in opposition to Ukraine on New 12 months’s Eve, leaving at the least one particular person useless. POLITICO’s Veronika Melkozerova has extra.
Passport management: POLITICO’s Lily Hyde has a must-read piece on the plight dealing with Ukrainians who solely possess a Russian passport and are being drafted right into a struggle in opposition to their very own nation. As many countries closed their borders to Russian residents, Ukrainians dwelling in territory occupied by Russia, which has been issuing its personal passports for almost a decade, discovered themselves coerced into turning into Russian residents. Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk mentioned this constitutes a struggle crime.
Oligarch index: Russia’s struggle has performed havoc with Ukrainian oligarchs’ fortunes, and the political affect of the super-rich has additionally taken a tumble, studies POLITICO’s Sergei Kuznetsov on this evaluation of who’s up and who’s down.
SNP IN-FIGHTING: Sky Information’ Joe Pike has the within story on the splits contained in the SNP which culminated in Stephen Flynn taking on from Ian Blackford because the celebration’s chief within the Commons final yr. Pike particulars how vitriolic SNP MPs will be in personal, with Flynn’s election representing a generational shift contained in the celebration. Blackford, Pike says, was deposed by fellow SNP MP David Linden assembly his chief whip and revealing the lengthy record of names that may counsel Flynn would win a management problem. Flynn denies information of a coup or any such record. As the whole SNP pushes for independence, the query of whether or not its MPs or MSPs are main the battle is a posh one, resulting in “blended messages for fragile egos,” Pike writes.
LULA’S COMEBACK: Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva — generally known as Lula — has been sworn in as the brand new president of Brazil, the third time he has held that workplace. Lula defeated the incumbent, Jair Bolsonaro, in October final yr, with Bolsonaro not attending Lula’s inauguration, having left Brazil for Florida final week. In a change from Bolsonaro’s insurance policies, Marina Silva, who’s certainly one of Brazil’s finest recognized local weather activists, was reappointed as head of the atmosphere and local weather ministry, with Lula pledging to succeed in “zero deforestation” within the Amazon by 2030. POLITICO’s Karl Mathiesen has the main points.
DRAKEFORD ELECTION-READY: Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford has warned the Labour Occasion in Wales to be ready for a basic election this yr. Drakeford advised the Guardian he believes the U.Ok. authorities could possibly be mere months away from collapsing.
FOOTBALL REGULATOR KICKS OFF: Over the weekend, the Sunday Occasions reported English soccer was to have its largest shake-up because the Premier League with a brand new regulator created. Caroline Wheeler says ministers will publish plans to create a brand new watchdog to make sure golf equipment are managed responsibly, and to forestall monetary collapse. The regulator would additionally guarantee golf equipment couldn’t compete in breakaway competitions just like the aborted European Tremendous League.
PREDICTING 2023
HAPPY (?) NEW YEAR: With struggle persevering with in Ukraine, tensions rising within the South China Sea and a grim financial outlook for everybody else, 2023 isn’t trying like it will likely be a very enjoyable yr for the world. As editor of the annual The World Forward journal, the Economist’s Tom Standage has needed to spend a lot of this yr desirous about the subsequent one. Playbook’s Andrew McDonald caught up with Standage on the Economist’s swanky places of work off the Strand in December for a chat about what’s in retailer for us all this yr — sorry to anybody nonetheless catching their breath after the whirlwind that was 2022. “Unpredictability is the brand new regular, and we simply need to get used to it,” Standage says.
First issues first: In his interview with Playbook final yr, Standage obtained the large geopolitical calls just about bang on. He mentioned he was “extra apprehensive” concerning the ominous build-up of Russian troops on the borders of Ukraine than he was a Chinese language invasion of Taiwan. One yr on, he reckons that regardless of the established order between China and Taiwan “breaking down,” it’ll survive for an additional yr: “We don’t see one thing massive occurring subsequent yr.” The principle lesson from Ukraine, for China, he argues, is that “if you’re going to invade the nation subsequent door, you higher be prepared … a giant energy invading a small energy could not go in accordance with plan.”
Again to Ukraine: Standage doesn’t see a decisive finish to the battle coming this yr and as an alternative reckons it’ll look “increasingly more like World Warfare One trench warfare.” He foresees extra incremental advances from Kyiv’s troops and says Putin “can’t win” — however that this doesn’t make him any much less harmful as he tries to string out the struggle and “hope that one thing within the exterior atmosphere modifications.” He factors out that Putin likes frozen conflicts: “The uncertainty provides him management, provides him energy and offers him affect.”
In the meantime, for the remainder of the world: Standage says the excessive vitality and excessive meals costs which have hit the West on account of the struggle will proceed. Inflation ought to begin to come down in most economies — however recession looms. “We predict a deep one in Europe, an extended one in Britain that most likely goes into 2024, after which a gentle one within the U.S.,” he predicts.
One to observe: Away from Ukraine and Taiwan, Standage and his crew of predictors have recognized among the different potential flashpoints for battle this yr. He factors to the opportunity of clashes between Greece and Turkey — each NATO members — as essentially the most provocative potential flashpoint. Going through reelection this yr, Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has threatened to take varied Greek islands near Turkey which the nation lays declare to, and will fancy going for them this yr as he seeks to spice up his probabilities of staying in energy (extra on that by POLITICO’s Paul Taylor this morning). “The worrying factor is that the Greeks may be up for a battle, as a result of the Greek PM additionally faces reelection and isn’t doing terribly nicely within the polls,” Standage says.
International locations to regulate: Standage names Taiwan — “clearly” — Turkey, and Italy as his nations to observe subsequent yr. “If cracks seem in European help for Ukraine, then a crack is more likely to seem in Italy first,” he says, pointing to the nation’s new right-wing chief Giorgia Meloni. He obtained again in contact after the interview so as to add Iran into the combo as a rustic to observe, with protests more likely to proceed there.
Causes to be cheerful: Mercifully, Standage does foresee alternatives for some excellent news this yr. A type of is definitely climate-related. Whereas Standage agrees local weather change will proceed to chunk, he says Russia’s struggle on Ukraine and ensuing vitality pressures will see an enormous drive towards renewables. He provides that NATO’s renewed sense of function and China’s slowing progress/declining inhabitants are two extra silver linings for supporters of the West.
MEDIA ROUND
As we speak program: Visitor edited by Sharon White, chairman of the John Lewis partnership.
Occasions Radio Breakfast: FDA union chief Dave Penman (7.05 a.m.) … Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Honcharenko (7.20 a.m.) … Kevin Saunders, former chief immigration officer for U.Ok. Border Power at Calais (7.35 a.m.) … Etienne Stott, Extinction Revolt spokesperson (8.20 a.m.) … Former Well being Secretary Stephen Dorrell (8.35 a.m.) … Dr David Nicholl, neurologist and committee member of Docs’ Affiliation U.Ok. (8.40 a.m.).
Reviewing the papers tonight: Sky Information (10.30 p.m.): The Telegraph’s Christopher Hope and journalist Rachel Shabi.
TODAY’S FRONT PAGES
(Click on on the publication’s title to see its entrance web page):
Each day Specific: 500 sufferers dying every week as a result of delays.
Each day Mail: Rishi’s triple new yr headache.
Each day Mirror: 500 deaths every week as a result of NHS disaster.
Each day Star: Barking Mad!
Monetary Occasions (on-line): Recession will hit a 3rd of the world this yr, IMF chief warns
i: Tory voters blame the Authorities for NHS disaster, ballot reveals.
PoliticsHome: Andrea Leadsom Says Supporting Mother and father Is A “Main Battleground Subject” For 2023.
POLITICO UK: Ukraine’s oligarch index: Who’s up and who’s down.
The Each day Telegraph: PM cabinets ‘massive bang’ childcare reforms.
The Guardian: Fury at ministers’ plans for brand spanking new real-terms pay reduce for NHS employees.
The Impartial: ‘Overwhelmed’ courts failing victims of crime.
The Solar: Harry v Wills: Gloves are orf.
The Occasions: A&E delays ‘killing as much as 500 sufferers each week.’
LONDON CALLING
WESTMINSTER WEATHER: Mild rain showers and winds, reaching a excessive of 9C.
SW1 NEW YEAR: The New 12 months noticed greater than 100,000 folks attend the London fireworks show, which was the primary time since 2019 that folks might watch it in-person. However how did MPs see in 2023? Defra Secretary Thérèse Coffey attended mass in Dom Bosco Church in Brasilia, Brazil … SNP MP David Linden went for a stroll by the banks of the Clyde with Labour MP Cat Smith … Tory MP Jacob Younger walked up Roseberry Topping, a hill in North Yorkshire … Tory MP Paul Bristow attended a church supporting tough sleepers and those that want a sizzling meal … Sinn Féin’s Chris Hazzard ate some Christmas couscous on the Brandy Pad in Northern Eire … Tory MP Sheryll Murray attended the Cawsand Bay New 12 months dip … Impartial MP Neil Coyle welcomed within the New 12 months in Bucharest, Romania … Labour MP Jess Phillips performed arcade video games … Lib Dem MP Tim Farron went for a run, one thing he goals to do every single day in January for charity … and Labour MP Luke Pollard took down his Christmas tree for an additional yr.
SPOTTED: A Welsh farmer who bears an uncanny resemblance to at least one former occupant of 10 Downing Avenue. David Phillips, 60, mentioned he was continually stopped due to his related look to Boris Johnson. Jonathon Hill in Wales On-line has the total story.
WEDDING BELLS: Congratulations to former SpAd energy couple Lucy Harris and Hugh Bennett, who obtained engaged over the festive interval. Harris tweeted the joyful information.
NEW GIG: LBC’s Roxanna Wright, who has develop into the assistant producer on the flagship present Nick Ferrari at Breakfast. Wright tweeted the information.
IN MEMORIAM: Pope Benedict XVI handed away aged 95 on New 12 months’s Eve. Benedict served because the pontiff from 2005 to 2013, turning into the primary pope to step down in almost 600 years. POLITICO’s Louise Guillot studies on how European leaders paid tribute to him.
BIRTHDAYS: Former Labour MP Helen Goodman … Cupboard Workplace Everlasting Secretary Alex Chisholm … Former Welsh Tories Chief Paul Davies … Cupboard Workplace Minister Lucy Neville-Rolfe turns 70 … Former U.Ok. Ambassador to Russia Andrew Wooden … Businesswoman Penelope Lyttelton … Training journalist Fiona Millar.
MEA CULPA: In Friday’s electronic mail we incorrectly named the creator of the Mail splash. It was co-written by Kumail Jaffer.
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