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Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England, said he would stay on for another year when his initial five-year term ends in 2018, to ‘contribute to securing an orderly transition to the UK’s new relationship with Europe’. More than 150 Conservative MPs, including cabinet ministers, voted to appoint Keith Vaz, a Labour MP, to the Commons Justice Select Committee, even though he had left the Home Affairs Select Committee when a newspaper revealed an alleged scandal involving rent boys. Greg Clark, the Business Secretary, told the Commons that he had assured Nissan, which decided to continue operations in Sunderland, that Britain would seek trade for the motor industry that was ‘free and unencumbered by impediments’ after Brexit. The Royal Clarence Hotel in Exeter, founded in 1769, which looked over Cathedral Green, was destroyed by fire.
Amber Rudd, the Home Secretary, told the Commons that there would be no inquiry into the clash between police and striking miners illegally blockading lorries carrying coke at Orgeave in 1984.
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