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Boris Johnson’s Downing Street indulged in excessive drinking and parties while gathering was illegal – but is there enough evidence against the PM personally?
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon was the great success story of the first round. The question now becomes – who gets his votes in the second?
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Professor of Post-harvest Biotechnology & Nutrition and Director, Centre of Excellence for Post-harvest Biotechnology (CEPB), University of Nottingham
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Professor of Operations Management, University of Nottingham
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Rights Lab Assistant Professor in Operations Management, University of Nottingham
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Assistant Professor of Business Economics, University of Nottingham
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PhD Candidate, employee technostress and the potential of mindfulness, School of Psychology, University of Nottingham
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Associate Professor, Department of Music, University of Nottingham
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Assistant Professor, Computer Science, University of Nottingham
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Associate professor, University of Nottingham
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Professor of Sustainable Business and Development, University of Nottingham
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Assistant Professor in Film and Screen Studies, University of Nottingham
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Associate Professor of Human-Computer Interaction, University of Nottingham
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Assistant Professor in Law, University of Nottingham
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AHRC Funded Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in History, University of Nottingham
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Professor of Collaborative Computing, University of Nottingham
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PhD Student in Engineering & Data Science, University of Nottingham
