Pasted below are highlights of David Cameron's statement to the Commons yesterday, reporting back from last week's EU leaders summit. Early action to tackle state borrowing: "On deficits, the Conclusions could not be clearer. Delaying action would entail “major risks”. And the Council called on Member States to meet budgetary targets “without delay”. Since the […]
At the general election, Steve Baker inherited the Wycombe constituency from Paul Goodman, now of this parish. Steve began his maiden speech on Tuesday with a warm tribute to Paul: "The most consistent theme of my candidacy was, above all, the tribute to my predecessor, and I feel I can scarcely do him justice. Paul […]
Sajid is a businessman and private investor. He was previously a senior Managing Director at Deutsche Bank AG. In this Platform he argues that current financial crisis in Dubai will hit UK banks hard and makes the need for action to resolve our banking problems even more urgent. If you needed any evidence of the […]
Andrea Leadsom is the parliamentary candidate for South Northamptonshire and former head of Barclays' Investment Banks team, which gave her a ringside seat at the collapse of Barings Bank. Read more from Andrea on her blog. In 1995, one month before Barings Bank collapsed as a result of rogue trading and fraud in the Far […]
Mark Wallace of the Taxpayers Alliance on how Council investments were out of control – but at least Charnwood found out what went wrong. When will other Councils investigate? If there is one two-word phrase that many councils came to fear in 2008, and which they probably don’t want to hear again in 2009, it […]
Howard Flight is a former Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury and recently set up Flight and Partners Recovery Fund. He is author of the Centre for Policy Studies pamphlet, From Boom to Bust: A Plain Guide to the Causes and Implications of the Banking Crisis. While I believe people know that it was Gordon […]
The Shadow Secretary of State for Local Government Eric Pickles today argued that every one of more than a hundred local authorities which had cash in collapsed Icelandic banks should be made public. "It is simply unacceptable that neither the government or the Local Government Association are publishing the list of the 116 local authorities […]
That is what Eric Pickles told this morning’s Today programme. ConHome broke this story yesterday. The greatest exposure so far identified is Kent with deposits totalling £50 Million. The next most exposed seems to be the Greater London Authority due to Transport for London having a £40m deposit with Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander, which has […]
This is the full text of the response by Shadow Chancellor George Osborne to the Chancellor’s emergency statement to the Commons this afternoon as issued by CCHQ. “Mr Speaker, as we see again from today’s markets these are clearly times of great instability for our economy and great anxiety for the people we all represent […]
Highlights, not verbatim: 11.06: We are seeing a difficult end to the decade of debt. 11.07: Tomorrow in my speech I will set out what we must do in order to put the economy right. 11.08: People are understandably angry at the bankers who paid themselves too much and are now turning to the taxpayer […]
Text pasted below, in full, as distributed by CCHQ.
A report has found that empty commercial and retail buildings, owned by local authorities, could be converted into 19,500 homes.
The message is welcome after the defeatism of her predecessors. But radical measures are needed to free up supply and get attractive new development.
Simon Horner is public affairs manager for the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association and writes here in a personal capacity. The British Right is generally more sceptical about industrial activism than their opponents. The Right cite the painful history of British Leyland’s nationalisation and near oblivion through to its eventual rescue by the […]