By Catherine McBride – 6 minute read IT HAS BEEN amusing to watch Jonathan Portes, Professor of Economics, Kings College London, hammering Mark Carney, now head of ESG investing at Brookfield Asset Management, for his inaccurate remark made during a Financial Times (FT) interview comparing UK and German GDPs since 2016. It was disingenuous for theformer Governor of the Bank of [...]
By Catherine McBride – 4 minute read IT WOULD APPEAR that everything is being blamed on Liz Truss. According to The Independent “There is little prospect of a post-Brexit trade deal with Brazil in the near future because of strained relations between Britain’s Conservative Government and the new administration of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.” But read a bit further [...]
By Ewen Stewart – 6 minute read THE LAST two weeks, since Kwasi Kwarteng’s now infamous budget, have perhaps been the most extraordinary in modern British political recollection. Truss and Kwarteng condemned, with almost religious like certainty, from a whole host of commentators from the IMF to Germany’s finance minister, from the usual suspects like the [...]
By Ben Habib, Chairman of Brexit-Watch.org Dear Fellow Pro-unionists I have just reviewed our draft submission to the Supreme Court. Every time I review our case, it seems to me there can be no basis on which its contentions could fail. So I travel in hope that British justice will be blind to politics and [...]
IN A SPIRIT of reconciliation, I wish Liz Truss God speed. There is much to be done. I take her at her word that her Government will be a small one, weaving a distinct path from the regulatory EU Leviathan and one where the state concentrates on freeing the people to grow the pie not [...]
