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The former shadow minister insists he won’t challenge Sussan Ley for party leadership. But the spectre of the dysfunctional Victorian Liberals remains
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Andrew Hastie has never been one for the theatre of parliamentary question time.
While his colleagues and political opponents revel in hurling insults and interjections across the chamber floor, the Liberal MP has more often than not remained conspicuously muted.
Company says more roles will be at risk unless UK government supports tariffs to protect industry
Ineos, the chemicals company owned by the billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe, is to cut a fifth of jobs at its East Yorkshire plant, blaming “sky high” energy costs and “dirt-cheap” imports from China.
The company said it would cut 60 jobs at the Ineos Acetyls site in Hull, which makes petrochemical products such as acetic acid, and said more roles would be at risk across the industry unless the government stepped in.