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Cameron's CBI snub is a blunder
Having said only last week that the Tories were mounting an increasingly impressive charm offensive in the City and wider business community, their leader, David Cameron goes and pulls the carpet from underneath his hardworking team by snubbing the CBI's...
Posted by David Worsfold on November 27, 2006 12:31 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
So, what did happen in Thirsk & Malton?
The failure of John Greenway to win selection for the new Thirsk & Malton seat (for electoral enthusiasts it is actually a famous old seat recreated) seems to have taken alot of people by surprise, not least John himself and...
Posted by David Worsfold on November 24, 2006 9:10 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Private equity changes the rules
Private equity has burst on the national consciousness with a vengeance in the past couple of months. The sector has made an art form out of keeping its head down and when it was forced above the parapet it has...
Posted by David Worsfold on June 25, 2007 9:37 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Back to the Bad Old Days
One of the refreshing features of the early years of the Blair governments was the determination to make Parliament operate abit more like the rest of us. This reforming zeal led to many changes, one of the most welcome of...
Posted by David Worsfold on February 22, 2007 9:01 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)
Sheikh sets out his stall
Lord Sheikh, best known as the boss of Camberford Law but now to be found on the Conservative benches in the House of Lords, is beginning to find his feet in his new surroundings. He has been chipping in quite...
Posted by David Worsfold on January 23, 2007 9:27 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)
Lord Hunt move to be welcomed
The news that Lord Hunt of Kings Heath – certainly not to be confused with Lord (David) Hunt of Wirral – has returned as a minister at the Department of Health is good news for all those with an interest...
Posted by David Worsfold on January 8, 2007 9:33 AM | Permalink | Comments (1)
Gagging the press in a crisis?
I have feared right from the start of the current financial crisis that we would face calls for the press to be regulated and gagged. Those fears have been realised with the publication of the Treasury Select Committee’s terms of...
Posted by David Worsfold on November 28, 2008 12:11 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)
Champion of broker regulation
One of the earliest and most persistent champions of statutory regulation of insurance brokers, former Tory MP Sir John Page, died on Friday, aged 89. Jack Page, as he was known, was MP for Harrow West from 1960 to 1987...
Posted by David Worsfold on November 4, 2008 9:22 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
Back to the future with the DEA
Re-organising government departments is obviously flavour of the month. No sooner have we had the rushed – and hopefully not botched – splitting of the Home Office than the Treasury is back in the sights of would be reformers. I...
Posted by David Worsfold on May 14, 2007 4:14 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
More broker bodies makes no sense
I want to leave the global banking crisis to one side and turn to the rather more parochial matter of the breakaway of the London Market Brokers Committee from the British Insurance Brokers’ Association to form the London International Insurance...
Posted by David Worsfold on October 13, 2008 2:26 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
MPs need the shake-up, not their expenses
I have been watching the current frenzy over stories of MPs expenses with a growing sense of despair. We are already facing a crisis because of the lack of respect for politicians and political processes in this country which is...
Posted by David Worsfold on March 30, 2009 11:40 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)
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