? The Financial Times (subscription) says David Cameron is hoping to meet Mitt Romney in London in the summer.David Cameron is hoping to meet Mitt Romney, the US presidential hopeful, in London this summer, as Downing Street draws up plans to avoid a repeat of this year's diplomatic snub of Fran?ois Hollande.By putting out the welcome mat for Mr Romney, Mr Cameron would be sending out a very different signal to that delivered to Mr Hollande in February,
marc by marc jacobs bag, when the prime minister refused to meet the Socialist presidential candidate on a visit to London.? Tom Newton Dunn in the Sun says Philip Hammond, the defence secretary, has banned military chiefs from giving speeches or interviews without permission.
4. The introduction of lay governance.Jolly says these changes were achieved without the need for votes. Lib Dem peers achieved these amendments by negotiation behind the scenes.11.09am: Shirley Williams is speaking now.She says she wants to explain the threat posed by the media.She says she is "extremely angry" about the way the health bill has been reported in the media.She quotes from Polly Toynbee's column yesterday. (See 9.00am.)Toynbee said the Lib Dems were voting to allow hospitals to devote 49% of their resources to private beds. But that is not true, she says. Toynbee either did not understand the bill, or ignored what it actually says.Under the bill, it would be impossible for hospitals to allocate 49% of their beds to private patients.
YouGov in the Sunday TimesLabour: 40% (down 3 points from YouGov on Friday)Conservatives: 35% (up 4)Lib Dems: 10% (down 1)Ukip: 7% (down 1)Labour lead: 5 points (down 7)Goverment approval: -36 (up 3)On his UK Polling Report blog Anthony Wells has been looking in more detail at the YouGov figures. Here's an extract.On Ed Miliband's leadership in particular, only 23% of people say he has made it clear what he stands for, 58% think he has not. 31% think he has been too close to the trade unions, 35% think he has not been close enough to business – surprisingly perhaps, given the often hostile attitudes polls find towards big business. While people saying Miliband is too anti-business are largely Conservative supporters, even 20% of Labour voters think Miliband has been too anti-business.
Q: And how long have you been in senior positions?15 years, Clark replies.Q: And have you been given a distinction.Clark says he was given a CBE.Q: Have you ever been subject to disciplinary proceedings before this?No,
marc jacobs outlet, says Clark.Q: During the last week your reputation has been tarnished. What has the effect been on you and your family?Clark replies:I think you can only imagine the impact [He seems to be saying "nightmare", but gets interrupted] ... It is something that has hugely taken over my life ... I have had the newspapers phoning me,
kate spade bags, texting me, emailing me ... I accept that for myself, but not for my family, where the intrusion is enormous.12.16pm: Michael Ellis, a Conservative, goes next.
Now millions of Tube users are facing the huge inconvenience and disruption that comes with a Tube strike. It has been 1,444 days since Boris Johnson was elected and he has still not bothered to meet representatives of the Tube unions to discuss his manifesto promise to implement a no-strike deal. Boris Johnson's failure to get a grip of the Tube has led to more Tube strikes in the last four years than in the previous eight years.10.45am: David Cameron wants to introduce minimum prices for alcohol. But today the Local Government Association is saying this could lead to more people drinking potentially dangerous illegal booze. This is from Cllr David Rogers, chair of the LGA's community wellbeing board.
12.25pm: Cameron says that Department for Transport is looking into upgrading an existing fleet of Bombardier trains. That would secure more work for the company, he says.12.25pm: Labour's Chris Williamson asks if Cameron will meet a cross-party delegation to discuss Bombardier, and whether the Thameslink contract can be reopened.Cameron says the government is looking to the future. It wants to do more for the rail industry. Bombardier was let down by Labour.12.27pm: Malcolm Bruce, a Lib Dem MP, asks about the 50p top rate of tax. Shouldn't raising the basic rate tax threshold to ￡10,000 be the priority?Cameron says that, on the 50p rate, the best thing to do is to look at the evidence. He suggests this will be available soon.
Carey Mullligan looks and sounds the part as Daisy. Joel Edgerton is superb as Tom – a real, show-stealing brute.Annoying camera work aside, there are also some very good sequences. There's a real sense of dissipation, sexual tension and claustrophobia in the rendering of Nick Carraway's "second" ever drunken episode, in that overwrought party in Myrtle's apartment in New York. The other one-room scene in the book, when Daisy, Gatsby and Tom have it out in a stifling suite in the Plaza Hotel, is similarly full of anger, violence and passion. When it's time for fireworks, Luhrmann manages to fill the sky – even if you spend a lot of the film worrying that he's going to explode his supply too soon (and even in spite of a hilariously mishandled moment when Gatsby first introduces himself against a backdrop of whizzing and fizzing rockets).
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