I am speaking at two meetings at Labour Party conference tomorrow. The most important has been organised by the Cooperative Party and the Fair Tax Mark. It’s at 5.45 in Meeting Room 7 and has the title: ‘Fair Tax, the new Fairtrade: how can Labour lead the agenda?’ Meg Hillier, the Chair of the Public Accounts
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So Jeremy Corbyn is leader of the Labour Party, again. Last summer I very rapidly realised he had no idea why he wanted to be leader, and that became apparent to everyone all too obviously very soon afterwards. This time I hope he has a better idea. And I sincerely hope that his idea is
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I spoke to a group on the above theme yesterday. They were interested in ways that action could be taken to tackle the issue. These were my speaking notes: 1. Let me offer you some quick assumptions that underpin what follows: · We live in a democracy · We have a mixed economy and no
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Mark Carney did, in effect, call for a Green New Deal yesterday, suggesting that was the direction in which new investment that the economy needs if it is to recover should be headed. I could quibble with some detail but agree with the broad thrust of his arguments. Will Philip Hammond take note and deliver
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The FT is reporting this morning that Boris Johnson has had a firm slap on the knuckles from Number 10 for suggesting that the UK may invoke Article 50 next year and so leave the EU in 2019. Apparently such speculation is not allowed by Theresa May. This should worry people, for three reasons. First,
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Citizens for Tax Justice in the USA have reported that: On Thursday, Rep. Mark Pocan (WI-D) introduced the Corporate Transparency and Accountability Act, a bill which would require all publicly-traded multinational companies to disclose their revenues, profits, taxes, and certain other operations information on a country-by-country basis (CbCR) to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
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I sent the following letter to Sir Win Bischoff, chair of the Financial Reporting Council this morning: Dear Sir Win, I am writing further to the article you had published in City AM[i] and the speech you made[ii] on 20 September. Both related to the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) conference[iii] on ‘Culture to Capital: aligning
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The FT is getting very excited about the fact that they say new disclosure regimes on CEO pay will not work. The substance of their claim is that if Goldman Sachs pays all its staff a great deal on average the massive salary paid to its CEO will represent a smaller ratio to average pay
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The Bahamas Leaks show that Amber Rudd, the UK’s home secretary, has been shown to have had links with two Bahamas registered companies to which she had not made apparent previous reference. The details of what she and they did can be found elsewhere; I am concerned here with the consequence of this revelation. It
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