[PDF file]: […] Tories in the Euro elections of 2019, they had no choice. The short-lived Change UK party was also set up as a private company, with an ex- Labour MP as its director. Social media is an area known to be notoriously difficult to regulate, even if – a big if – the tech-giants actually […]
[PDF file]: […] in 1992 ‘with a smaller electorate’; and that Labour’s defeat was down more to their voters either voting LibDem or abstaining than defecting to the Tories. The Labour vote fell by 2.6 million. The conclusion they draw from this is that Johnson’s popularity was exaggerated. (p. 137) What they do not do is adequately […]
[…] might inhibit short-selling and reducing disproportionate costs for firms. (Emphasis added.) Shorting is gambling on future share prices. Far from encouraging it, you might think that a Labour government would simply ban it. But hey, if the gambling is made easier, we’ll get more of it in London. Economic growth! The writer with no […]
[PDF file]: […] done by propertyless labourers who are obliged to sell their labour-power in exchange for a wage in order to gain access to the means of life and labour itself. In the process of supplying the needs and wants of society, workers are at the same time and inseparably creating profit for those who buy […]
[PDF file]: […] granted. Delays set in almost immediately. The tentative consultation signalled by the White Paper Your Right to Know didn’t begin until December 1997, some seven months after Labour had formed its first government since 1979.2 Three years later, the Lord Chancellor’s department proposed that the new legislation should be phased in with delays between […]
[PDF file]: […] between 2018-19 and 2021-22, the Financial Times previously reported.1 The paragraph above was in a Financial Times report from January 2024. It followed the news that the Labour Party was taking unprecedented levels of support in kind from consulting firms like EY UK and the other members of the ‘big four’ consultancies. The same […]
[…] between 2018-19 and 2021-22, the Financial Times previously reported.1 The paragraph above was in a Financial Times report from January 2024. It followed the news that the Labour Party was taking unprecedented levels of support in kind from consulting firms like EY UK and the other members of the ‘big four’ consultancies. The same […]
[PDF file]: […] difficult to square this concern for political honesty and the truth with Oborne working at the Daily Mail, of all papers. My suspicion was that, once New Labour had been replaced by a Conservative government, Oborne would inevitably be put to the test, a test that he was likely to fail. Would he judge […]
[…] ructions between the House of Commons Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) and the Cabinet Office.11 The ISC is, apparently, being squeezed financially. Its chair, Lord Beamish (the Labour MP Kevan Jones as was) thinks it should employ more staff than his current budget will allow. The ISC was created in the early 1990s, after […]
[PDF file]: […] or Majoritarian Pluralism.’1 4 I noticed a report on this on 30 March, the first official day of the general election campaign here, which was begun by Labour leader Ed Miliband making nice in the City of London, promising not to increase their taxes and, centrally, to keep UK corporation tax the lowest in […]
