I asked Jeremy Corbyn for policy and never got it. I have been severely criticised for doing so. I can live with that. One of my sons reckons I was born in a flak jacket and my mother certainly agreed. So bearing that in mind I will say that Owen Smith has delivered a lot
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I was just called by a journalist asking about the history of Wage Councils. I pointed them at a 1995 House of Commons research paper that includes the following on the Trades Councils that were superseded by Wage Councils in 1945: Minimum wage legislation in Britain can be traced back to Winston Churchill’s Trade Boards
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I am going to quote for the second time from an article by David Wearing in the Guardian yesterday supporting Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party. I did so yesterday to note that the touchstone for radicalism in Labour is, apparently, a policy I authored that Corbyn has not adopted. I now note that
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I have campaigned for more resources for HMRC for many years. My argument is in essence very simple. It makes no sense at all when we have an enormous tax gap (£34 billion per HMRC and £120 billion in my estimation) and HMRC costs of tax collection of less than £5 billion a year to
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