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RAPACIOUS Pfizer drug company boss Ian Read insulted MPs with an arrogant display of US corporate Newspeak yesterday.
Mr Read faced sharp questioning over a feared jobs massacre if Pfizer succeeds in taking over AstraZeneca, which employs 7,000 people in Britain.
Commons business committee chairman Adrian Bailey MP said the company had been variously described as “a praying mantis” and “a shark that needs feeding.”
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Beatrice Pompe and Bernadette Dugasse have submitted a UN complaint against Labour’s deal with Mauritius, highlighting how exclusion from ancestral lands is denying their right of return and justice for historical abuses, reports ELIZABETH MISTRY