London mayoral hopeful Sadiq Khan: No Labour landslide in 2015 General Election March 13, 2015 The widely tipped London mayoral candidate and MP for Tooting has said Labour became "arrogant" in office and didn't "spot early enough the need for additional housing". Khan, a close ally of Ed Miliband has been put in charge of heading off the growing popularity of the Green Party that Labour sees as a threat [...]
Investment banking more popular than at any time in the last three years March 13, 2015 Investment banking has become one of the most attractive careers for Londoners and surged to its most popular level in three years. Global recruiter Randstad polled over 10,000 workers to discover how attractive different industries are to the UK's workforce. In London, investment banking is now the third most popular sector following electronic engineering and [...]
FCA bans Gracechurch’s Sam Kenny from financial services industry and hands out £450,000 fine March 13, 2015 The former chief executive of Gracechurch Investments Limited Sam Kenny has been banned from working in the financial services industry and fined £450,000. Gracechurch, a now dissolved stock broking firm, was guilty of a host infractions. The Financial Conduct Authority found Kenny had used pressure selling techniques and Gracechurch had routinely sold stocks through misrepresentation [...]
Ed Miliband is bad for Britain’s economy, say 61 per cent of business leaders March 13, 2015 Ed Miliband has yet to shake off the impression that he and his party are anti-business spendthrifts who can't be trusted with the economy, according to polling from YouGov. The Labour party lagged significantly behind the Conservatives on every question YouGov asked business leaders. In terms of who would be best for shareholders, Labour scored [...]
The British public is ideologically committed to nationalisation March 13, 2015 The British public is surprisingly ideological when it comes to who runs public services, it turns out. The British may have developed a reputation for pragmatism over political doctrine as compared with continental Europe, but new polling from YouGov suggests the opposite is, in fact, the case. The argument of public versus private provision of [...]
Lord Mandelson doubts Labour can win the General Election March 11, 2015 The man who helped rebrand the Labour party and turn it into an election winning machine doubts his party can secure a majority at this year's General Election. Lord Peter Mandelson told the Retail Week conference: There will almost certainly be a stalemate hung Parliament in two months' time. Given the state of the polls, [...]
Isolated like North Korea? No. The UK has plenty of allies and will achieve success after Brexit March 11, 2015 The claim made by former Prime Minister Gordon Brown that outside the EU the UK would be “the North Korea of Europe” is ignoring the facts – and Britain’s potential. Unlike North Korea, the UK has a large number of global alliances and partners. It had these before the creation of the EU and it [...]
General Election 2015: Third of young people say social media will influence their vote March 11, 2015 There is a strong tradition of British elections adopting some of the more cutting edge political trends seen in the US. Labour and the Tories have both hired top political strategists from the Obama team to add a little stardust to the campaigns. Social media is also in the political parties' sights and rightly so, [...]
Millions of UK jobs NOT at risk from Brexit: Free market think-tank busts pro-EU myth March 11, 2015 The oft-repeated claim that 3m British jobs depend on Britain's membership of the EU has been challenged in a new report by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA). The report's author, Ryan Bourne, calls on the public and commentators to challenge the assertion frequently made by pro-EU supporters. "It can be said with certainty that [...]
Sorry, Nigel Farage, Judeo-Christian nationalism is no answer to failed multiculturalism March 10, 2015 What’s the best way to fix the problems created by state-sponsored multiculturalism? According to Nigel Farage, it’s using government power to confirm the worst fears of minority communities. Farage recently made his debut appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference, just outside of Washington, DC. He used his time in front of American conservatives and [...]
