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- 2010.02.26: Edging towards a pleural plaques solution
- 2010.02.18: Will this be the Twitter election? UK political parties look for Obama lessons
- 2010.02.11: Insurers need to be careful in opposing the DWP's employers' liability reforms
- 2010.02.09: Sants' departure from the FSA clears the way for reform of regulation
- 2010.02.08: Expenses scandal just won't go away. Do we pay? No?
- 2010.02.03: Equality Bill moves towards compromise on travel and motor insurance
- 2010.01.22: Obama bank plan puts UK on the defensive and EU in the shade
- 2010.01.04: Welcome to the five (or is it three) month election campaign
- 2009.12.17: Flood debate raises insurance concerns
- 2009.12.16: BA travel insurance row shows why consumer insurance law reform is needed
- 2009.12.15: Consumers look set for better deal on insurance as the industry swings behind Law Commission proposals
- 2009.12.07: Government action on asbestosis liabilities moves closer by the day
- 2009.11.30: UK financial services is now a clear EU target
- 2009.11.23: Plenty to keep the insurance industry occupied in Parliament's final session but what will make it over the finishing line?
- 2009.11.18: Latest All Party Group newsletter is out
- 2009.11.18: Home income plans are finding their feet again but still need to work at becoming a mainstream product
- 2009.11.10: All Party Group looks at home income plans
- 2009.10.30: Some MPs still don't get what needs to be done to put the expenses scandal behind them
- 2009.10.29: EU offers best hope of RDR delay and rethink but banks special pleading doesn't go down well
- 2009.10.23: Personal Accounts look to be in safe hands at the PADA
- 2009.10.22: Government survived Equitable Life vote as Labour MPs stayed loyal. What now for the policyholders?
- 2009.10.19: Government faces a tough week over Equitable Life as Liberal Democrats put them on the spot
- 2009.10.14: John McFall puts the "too big to fail" issue on the political agenda and John Greenway bows out
- 2009.10.13: Back to Westminster and it is as if the summer never happened
- 2009.10.09: So many of the big issues for financial services were overlooked at the party conferences, although Cameron did remember at the last minute
- 2009.09.28: At last the mutuality debate gets underway, starting with Northern Rock
- 2009.09.21: All Party Group autumn programme tackles a wide range of issues
- 2009.09.17: EU hedge fund debate is getting an injection of commonsense
- 2009.09.09: Competition Commission should stick to its guns over PPI sales ban
- 2009.08.28: Turner's bank tax call: Is FSA boss playing a clever political game over bankers' bonuses?
- 2009.08.24: EU gets ready for G20 regulation debate
- 2009.07.31: Treasury Select Committee plays a long game
- 2009.07.28: Insurance industry makes a pitch for privatisation of social benefits
- 2009.07.27: Latest All Party Group newsletter is out
- 2009.07.24: Treasury Select Committee has its say on regulatory reform
- 2009.07.22: Equality Bill, Equitable Life and pleural plaques still hang over the insurance industry - not to mention regulation
- 2009.07.16: Banking reform: reports galore promised over the next couple of weeks but will they get us any further foward?
- 2009.07.14: Vince Cable's book The Storm is worth reading for a real insight into the causes and consequences of the financial crisis
- 2009.07.08: Regulation of banks, building societies and insurers now looks to be a significant political battleground
- 2009.07.06: Merricks departure as Financial Ombudsman leaves a very big hole to fill but a decent legacy
- 2009.06.30: Flood defence spending and Thoresen review get legislative nod from Gordon Brown
- 2009.06.25: Little progress on Equitable Life but pressure could build up to move the Treasury
- 2009.06.23: Tomorrow is another big day for Equitable Life as both Parliament and the High Court add to the saga
- 2009.06.22: Irresponsible bankers will smile at the global regulatory reform chaos
- 2009.06.16: Sweden lines up with UK in battle over Europe-wide regulatory reform
- 2009.06.15: All Party Group has a bright future even if it might look a little different
- 2009.06.11: Equality Bill is starting to look tricky for insurers
- 2009.06.08: Euro elections leave the UK totally isolated on financial services regulatory reform
- 2009.06.03: Equality Bill debates will hear exemption plea from insurers
- 2009.06.02: Financial services regulation: House of Lords backs the global option put forward at G20
- 2009.05.29: The EU is now out in front in the race to reform financial services regulation
- 2009.05.27: Daily Telegraph's expenses spotlight falls on John Greenway
- 2009.05.22: MPs are fast losing the plot in their attempts to excuse the mess they have made for themselves
- 2009.05.21: Viggers' duck house brings the curtain down on a distinguished career but raises the stakes in the body-strewn political battlefield
- 2009.05.20: Little hope on Equitable Life front
- 2009.05.19: Trade credit insurers calm the political waters
- 2009.05.15: Should Myners have stopped Goodwin's pension?
- 2009.05.14: Government is to be put on the spot over Equitable Life
- 2009.05.13: Prime Minister ducks the Equitable Life issue
- 2009.05.12: Latest All Party Group newsletter now available
- 2009.05.12: Battle lines drawn on Equality Bill
- 2009.05.08: MPs' expenses greed is shocking but we need to get over it
- 2009.05.06: Equitable Life report is now a serious political threat to the government
- 2009.05.05: Banks could face a mutual future
- 2009.04.29: All Party Group tackles trade credit insurance
- 2009.04.27: Insurers have little to fear from the Equality Bill
- 2009.04.27: Trade credit row could turn nasty for insurers
- 2009.04.24: I'm not the only one who sees the 1970s looming on the horizon
- 2009.04.23: The Budget points towards a decade of gloom and conflict
- 2009.04.22: Darling shows he has run out of ideas
- 2009.04.21: The Budget: who will come out on top?
- 2009.04.20: Why have the Equitable Life policyholders gone for a judicial review now?
- 2009.04.20: Treasury Committee picks off its targets one-by-one
- 2009.04.09: Is breaking up the RBS and Lloyds a good idea?
- 2009.04.06: Insurers win key battle on equality
- 2009.04.03: G20 points to a new era of regulation - but by whom?
- 2009.04.02: ABI pitch for London-based regulator is a canny move as G20 meets
- 2009.04.01: Myners isn't the Goodwin fall guy
- 2009.03.31: Equitable Life battle lines become more entrenched
- 2009.03.30: MPs need the shake-up, not their expenses
- 2009.03.25: What can Brown salvage from the G20 Summit?
- 2009.03.24: Noose tightens on ratings agencies
- 2009.03.23: Tax bomb has started ticking
- 2009.03.18: Goodwin's pension is obscuring the issue
- 2009.03.06: Brown has lost the regulatory reform battle already - he just can't bring himself to admit it
- 2009.02.26: Does the FSA really have the answers?
- 2009.02.25: Europe draws up the battle lines on financial regulation
- 2009.02.17: Credit crunch confidence crisis
- 2009.02.12: Banks: it is all about control
- 2009.02.04: PPI Clampdown hits the mark
- 2009.01.19: No justice for Equitable Life policyholders
- 2009.01.14: More Equitable delay?
- 2009.01.06: Equality Bill stirs travel insurance anger
- 2008.12.16: Government reneges on Equitable Life promise
- 2008.12.04: Financial services beware: the Equality Bill has got your name on it
- 2008.12.02: FSCS could play Equitable Life role
- 2008.11.28: Gagging the press in a crisis?
- 2008.11.25: Parliament moves fast on 'budget' debate
- 2008.11.20: Equitable Life: the final chapter?
- 2008.11.20: Equity release has found new friends
- 2008.11.11: Parliament missing its credit crunch chance
- 2008.11.04: Champion of broker regulation
- 2008.10.22: Lloyds TSB suffers bonus backlash
- 2008.10.15: Wither the ratings agencies?
- 2008.10.13: More broker bodies makes no sense
- 2008.10.10: McFall lowers the temperature
- 2008.10.09: FSCS bill mounts up
- 2008.10.08: Who will scrutinise the nationalised banks?
- 2008.10.08: AIG: Alive but still in chains
- 2008.10.07: Treasury Committee will be akin to blood sports
- 2008.09.22: There will be a price to pay for credit crunch bail out
- 2008.09.17: AIG: Dead Man in Chains?
- 2008.07.17: Right the Equitable Life wrong now
- 2008.07.15: Time called on flood insurance
- 2008.07.15: Bankers should take blame for credit crunch
- 2008.07.01: Cynicism about politicians is healthy...up to a point
- 2008.06.19: FSA swings into action on hedge funds
- 2008.06.11: Why has the ABI rejected the Law Commission?
- 2008.05.21: Floods still in the news one year on
- 2008.05.16: Lots of laws but where are the pleural plaques?
- 2008.05.09: Political landscape changes but Labour are still in power
- 2008.04.14: Hunt review will move Ombudsman forward
- 2008.02.01: Moving backwards on bank regulation
- 2008.01.21: Ombudsman report causes a stir
- 2008.01.15: Group sets out Ombudsman views
- 2008.01.09: Industry needs to be alert on floods fallout
- 2008.01.04: Looking to the next banking crisis before solving the last one
- 2008.01.03: Heads down for long haul
- 2007.10.10: Flood row heats up
- 2007.10.09: Big let down on flood spending
- 2007.09.06: Floods: Warnings from Hull
- 2007.07.06: After the deluge, the promises
- 2007.06.26: Treasury's Travel Trumps
- 2007.06.25: Private equity changes the rules
- 2007.06.22: Flood debate gains new momentum
- 2007.06.08: HIP hopping to chaos
- 2007.05.14: Back to the future with the DEA
- 2007.05.02: Why the rush to split Home Office?
- 2007.03.12: Silly games over Lords reform
- 2007.03.09: Fraud: We know there is a way but is there a will?
- 2007.03.05: Trades unions fear mis-selling crisis
- 2007.02.23: Travel battle lines are drawn
- 2007.02.22: Back to the Bad Old Days
- 2007.02.06: Do we need more MPs?
- 2007.01.23: Sheikh sets out his stall
- 2007.01.08: Lord Hunt move to be welcomed
- 2007.01.04: Protection has never been needed more
- 2006.12.13: Ed Balls impresses
- 2006.12.06: MPs taken aback by spread of staged accidents
- 2006.11.28: Where is the Man from the Pru when you need him?
- 2006.11.27: Cameron's CBI snub is a blunder
- 2006.11.24: So, what did happen in Thirsk & Malton?
- 2006.11.23: Is pensions consensus possible?
- 2006.11.21: Greenway to bow out
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