Benn

British

/ bɛn /

noun

Antony ( Neil ) Wedgwood , known as Tony Benn . born 1925, British Labour politician, a leading figure on the party's left wing. He renounced (1963) the title of Viscount Stansgate

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Reacting to Lyons, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Hilary Benn, said: "The Northern Ireland Executive does have the means if it wants to raise more money" by revenue raising.

From BBC

Benn said that raising wages would help the economy by giving people "more money in their pocket then that enables them to spend it".

From BBC

In a letter to Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn, it stated the bill is "manifestly deficient" and contains "almost no protections beyond those which already exist".

From BBC

Benn's task is navigating a course, particularly in Northern Ireland, which does not risk his bill becoming as controversial as the last.

From BBC

“There is a community of overleveraged market participants who are long crypto and also long bubbly tech stocks,” says Benn Eifert, managing partner at QVR Advisors, a San Francisco investment firm.

From The Wall Street Journal

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