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Antitrust laws are meant to prevent precisely this type of conduct, ensuring that firms compete on performance.

“In short order the warren of oddly shaped rooms in the carriage house became spaces for lectures, workshops, and impromptu performances,” Mr. Gennari writes.

Saudi jets could be equipped with downgraded avionics, reduced flight performance or range, limited weapons packages, hidden IFF transmitters and so forth.

Graves said Mr Crittenden would be paid at the very bottom of the national pay scales for the job - currently £181,018 a year - with the opportunity to earn bonuses for good performance.

In her Downing Street press conference, she said: "It is already clear that the productivity performance…is weaker than previously thought."