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For a little while on Monday, he did not say yes to any of the jobs he was offered, stewing over whether they were appealing, senior enough or might box him in too much politically.

The instructions from City Hall were: “You could draw a plan on a napkin and we’ll say yes to it,” recalled Ginger Brown, the head of a business group in the city’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood.

It talks about how women have to say yes to themselves: their erotic nature, their empowerment and it's not in service of men all the time.

As they each vie to replace Rishi Sunak to become the Leader of the Opposition, Jenrick’s holding position is to say "yes" to invites to interviews and journalistic scrutiny and Badenoch’s is to often say "no".

She says: “NICE has to look at the NHS as a whole, and understand that it has a finite budget. It doesn't get any more money when we say yes to a treatment. So if we recommend treatments, then other patients are impacted.”