Lord Flight a former Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party, who is now chairman of Flight & Partners Recovery Fund. He took his seat in January 2011. The “death throes” of the Euro and the outrageous rioting and looting in London do not have common causes, but both are symptomatic […]
Lord Flight is a former Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury who is now chairman of Flight & Partners Recovery Fund. This article was submitted 24 hours before yesterday's latest "solution" to the €urozone's debt crisis. It is perhaps not surprising that while we have been wallowing in the escalating Murdoch crisis, coverage of the […]
Lord Flight is a former Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury who is now chairman of Flight & Partners Recovery Fund. I am a patriot and continue to believe that, given the right, capitalist, fiscal environment, the British people have the inventive and entrepreneurial talents to restore our economic health. What is concerning is that […]
Lord Flight is a former Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury who is now chairman of Flight & Partners Recovery Fund. One of the main reasons why I have always supported the Conservative Party is because, going right back to the 1950s, I perceived it as the main supporter of meritocracy and upwards social mobility; […]
The Budget was much as expected. The cut in corporation tax was better than scheduled. The increase in EIS income tax relief to 30%, the doubling of what an investor can invest and 400% increase on what can be invested in an EISQualifying company are all welcome but it is crucial the government does not […]
Lord Flight is a former Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury who is now chairman of Flight & Partners Recovery Fund. This is expected to be an uneventful Budget as the measures to address the public finances have already been taken. The challenge is to come up with measures which will be effective in achieving […]
Lord Flight is a former Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party, who is now chairman of Flight & Partners Recovery Fund. I had thought previously that the European Central Bank and/or the new European Stability Mechanism (ESM) would end up financing the problem EU economies by printing the […]
Lord Flight is a former Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party, who is now chairman of Flight & Partners Recovery Fund. There is an obvious need for the private sector of the British economy to recover and grow faster to take up the slack in the economy; to […]
Lord Flight is a former Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party, who is now chairman of Flight & Partners Recovery Fund. He took his seat in the House of Lords earlier this month. A year has elapsed since I last wrote a piece on this subject, but the […]
Howard Flight was MP for Arundel and South Downs between 1997 and 2005, is a former Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party, and is now chairman of Flight & Partners Recovery Fund. After being awarded a peerage last week, he will shortly take his seat in the House […]
Howard Flight was MP for Arundel and South Downs between 1997 and 2005, is a former Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party, and is now chairman of Flight & Partners Recovery Fund. I recently returned from a two-week trip through China. I also visit India regularly where I […]
This morning ConHome assembled a panel of economic and political experts to summarise their hopes, fears, advice and expectations in advance of George Osborne's statement on the Comprehensive Spending Review. Here they give us their reaction to the statement: Sajid Javid is MP for Bromsgrove and a member of the Work and Pensions Select Committee […]
ConHome assembled a panel of economic and political experts to summarise their hopes, fears, advice and expectations In advance of George Osborne's statement on the Comprehensive Spending Review this afternoon. They will also all give us their reaction later this afternoon. Howard Flight is a former Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury who is now […]
Howard Flight was MP for Arundel and South Downs between 1997 and 2005, is a former Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury and Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party, and is now chairman of Flight & Partners Recovery Fund. When the UK Government committed to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in 2002, I disagreed, in […]
Lord Flight is a former Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury who is now chairman of Flight & Partners Recovery Fund. Overall I suggest the electorate should both have sympathy with and support this Government which has been faced with more problems and challenges than any since World War II, in unrelenting sequence. It has tried […]