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He has high hopes for Liz Truss,who is married to the accountant Hugh O’Leary. He’s “encouraged by the fact that she qualified as an accountant”.
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Wetherspoons has a reputation for driving a hard bargain with suppliers — ordering large volumes and demanding a discount.
After his crusade to extract Britain from the EU, he now has supermarkets — the “main competitor” to the pub — in his sights
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He targets volume by keeping prices low, avoiding buying pubs with ties to brewers and converted other properties instead.
🗣️ “Most Sunday Times readers won’t believe it, but I feel sure Wetherspoons has won more design awards than any other company in the history of the world”
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He increasingly takes aim at journalists. He whips out Wetherspoon News — the inhouse magazine he prints and leaves out for customers in his pubs.
This copy is a special edition of all the apologies and corrections that Martin has secured across Fleet Street
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He’s also gone head-to-head with the Guardian columnist Owen Jones, who accused him of paying “poverty wages”, has raged about lockdown and attacked No 10 “hypocrisy” for holding parties while restrictions forced pubs to close
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Over the past 40 years he has built Wetherspoons from a single pub in Muswell Hill to a chain of vast drinking holes, set up in former opera houses, cinemas and theatres
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The major thing about democracy, he says, is that “in spite of the chaos, and it’s often chaotic, it does work better than the alternative, as Churchill said”
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“They haven’t done it! If you criticise the EU for its protectionism, there’s an implicit promise you’re going to do something different.”
If Martin feels let down with how the government has handled Brexit, it has so far done nothing to knock his resolve
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“Tony Blair hit the nail on the head when he said Boris doesn’t have a plan,” he booms, causing three customers to look up warily from a nearby table at the JD Wetherspoon Metropolitan Bar in London’s Baker Street
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After spending months trotting up and down the country and appearing on any television station that would have him, he rejoiced when Britain voted to leave the European Union.
But the rejoicing didn’t last long, observed when interviewing Tim Martin
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Interview with Wetherspoons’ founder Tim Martin, who said: get rid of the f***ing tariffs and Brexit works
“Tony Blair hit the nail on the head when he said Boris doesn’t have a plan”.
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The largest city to have fallen into Russian hands is now the scene of back-and-forth fighting
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Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg review — more relaxed host still a political interrogator to be reckoned with | ✍️
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“Reality TV will always divide opinions, but I am protective of it; it gave me my big opportunity, in an industry that is difficult to break into”
on Meatloaf and finding fame on The X Factor | ✍️
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All the stars came out for a concert at Wembley Stadium in memory of the Foo Fighters’ drummer, masterfully arranged by Dave Grohl | ✍️ Lisa Verrico
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Strong action against poachers has led to a rise in the country’s elephant population but hunger is emboldening them to enter towns and villages
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Now the presenter has quit Casa Amor to star in a West End play, she’s free to answer the critics of the controversial show. TV needs to look after its reality contestants, she tells
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Debbie Harry () paved the way for Billie Eilish and Dua Lipa, overcoming Seventies sexism with attitude and the creativity forged in hard times, she tells
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. is a Bollywood star — but can she go global in a Disney superhero film? By Nirpal Dhaliwal
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🔺 NEW: Police have arrested a man from Liverpool on suspicion of murder and attempted murder in connection with the fatal shooting of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel
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Bridgen was told to pay in excess of £800k in legal costs to three shareholders at his family’s firm, of which one is his brother, Paul, after bringing claims of unfair treatment. He could yet be ordered to pay £244k in rent arrears
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Bridgen and his second wife, Nevena, a Serbian blogger and former opera singer, had lived in the restored 18th-century home without charge since 2015.
During this period, it is understood that he refused to pay rent, or bills for water and electricity
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The house, in Coleorton, a chocolate-box village in Leicestershire, is owned by the family business and has a stable, sauna, swimming pool and 5.5 acres of land
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In a later judgment in June, which came to light only last week, the MP has been forced by the judge to vacate the Old Vicarage, a five-room property reportedly valued at about £1.5m
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Judge Brian Rawlings also found that Bridgen pressured the police inspector in his parliamentary constituency to launch a costly one-year investigation into vexatious allegations against his estranged younger brother Paul Bridgen
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The judge found that, rather than being bullied out of the job as he alleged, Bridgen resigned in order to reduce the amount he might owe his first wife, Jackie, in divorce proceedings
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The North West Leicestershire MP had accused the firm of forcing him out of a £93k-a-year second job, which required him to attend a monthly board meeting
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In March, a High Court judge ruled that he “lied” under oath, behaved in an “abusive”, “arrogant” and “aggressive” way, and was so dishonest that nothing he said about the dispute could be taken at face value
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Andrew Bridgen has spent years suing his family business, AB Produce, which supplies potatoes and other vegetables to catering companies and supermarkets
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💉 A six-in-one super jab that will protect against strains of Covid-19, flu and respiratory syncytial virus — similar to a cold — could be introduced by winter 2025, the UK boss of pharmaceuticals giant Moderna has said
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Donald Trump branded President Biden an “enemy of the state” as he warned that the FBI raid on his Florida home would create “a backlash the likes of which nobody has ever seen”
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It offers a glimpse of the stark choices facing the new prime minister, expected to be Liz Truss, when they take office on Tuesday
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The document says:
🗣️ “Greater financial vulnerability may expose some staff to higher risk of corruption, especially among those who fall into significant debt or financial difficulties”
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A senior officer at one force in the north of England told a local MP that without significant government intervention they feared a return to the febrile conditions that led to the London riots in 2011
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Drawn up with input from the National Police Chiefs’ Council, the document goes on to say that “a more complex and unpredictable risk is the chance of greater civil unrest, as a response to prolonged and painful economic pressure”
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