While the Keir's away

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : Also on Sky News Mornings: Former Conservative International Trade Secretary Liam Fox (8.15 a.m.) ...
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57% : businesses should be able to spend their apprenticeship levy funds across the U.K.'s four nations and on capital investments, according to the Transport Committee ... and the government has set an unrealistic deadline for inheritance tax payments on unused pensions, the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee has said (the FT has a write-up).
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55% : YOINK: No. 10 has nicked Hannah Bronwin, a member of Ed Miliband's clean power "mission control" unit, to become the PM's adviser on energy and industrial policy, according to my Energy Pro colleagues.
44% : Dressed down in his usual dark clothes for the red-eye flight, the PM repeated his lines about choosing neither "golden age" nor "ice age" and said he wanted to "explore opportunities" while protecting national security.
40% : The diplomats weren't present during Fico's chat with Trump or the discussion with EU leaders where he raised his concerns, but were briefed separately on Fico's remarks shortly after.
39% : The i Paper: Pubs u-turn to save Britain's locals from extinction -- but no help for restaurants facing April tax hikes.
18% : BEYOND THE M25 BREAKING OVERNIGHT: Slovakian PM Robert Fico told EU leaders last week that a meeting with Donald Trump left him shocked by the U.S. president's state of mind, five European diplomats briefed on the chat told my POLITICO colleagues Nicholas Vinocur and Zoya Sheftalovich.

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