September 2011
City minister asked: “Why hasn’t a single banker been prosecuted yet?”
City minister Mark Hoban was grilled last night on why no bankers had been arrested, prosecuted and jailed in the UK for their role in the financial crisis.
A damp squib or quiet radicalism from the Vickers Commission?
Ben Fox looks at yesterday’s Independent Commission on Banking Vickers Commission report on the future of the banking industry.
The Vickers report lacked ambition and lacks bite
It is not difficult to understand why today’s report of the Independent Commission on Banking (the Vickers Commission) falls short of what we need.
Former Tory minister “in the pay of the Libyans” claims Labour MP
Reports allege that former Thatcher minister Lord Trefgarne was in the pay of the Libyan regime while lobbying for the release of Lockerbie bomber Mohmed Al Megrahi.
Housing will define the London Mayoral election
Livingstone’s housing record was a good one; Johnson’s is dreadful. The task for progressives is to convince Londoners they can vote for a better way next May.
Cameronism uncovered: Taxpayer-funded big business
David Cameron sits at the junction of a big-spending State and big business, writes Left Foot Forward’s Daniel Elton.