As Matthew Taylor has noted in the Guardian: The British public backs an ambitious transformation of the UK into a greener, fairer more equal society
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It’s time that auditors stopped gaming systems for their own advantage
The FT had a story yesterday with the headline: As the story noted: Deloitte has been ordered to pay a record fine of £15m plus
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Has the time to replace inheritance tax arrived?
Inheritance tax is supposedly one of thE most hated taxes in the UK, even though only a tiny proportion of estates pay it. I offer
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To become a truly “Global Britain†then we must show leadership on international tax reform
The Times had an article by Margaret Hodge MP and David Mitchell MP (Labour and Tory respectively) yesterday in which they said: As debate turns
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This crisis cannot be solved competitively in the sense that market dogma has suggested
Some thoughts I posted on Twitter last night, best read from the bottom up: My point is simple, and given I have another agenda for
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Tax and opacity remain at the heart of Starbuck’s operations
As the FT has reported this morning: Starbucks’ European division paid $175m in dividends to its US parent company last year, despite recording a 99
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Boris Johnson is warned he could oversee economic “catastrophe” which “threatens the survival of the Conservative Party”
The Daily Express’ series of articles featuring my comments appears to be continuing, with a new one out yesterday. The sub-heading was: KEIR STARMER is
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The rule of law
What defines a modern state? It is the ability to make law, and the fulfilment of the duty to uphold it. What happens when that
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Usual service, and all that
A small personal note this morning. I am taking my younger son to university for the first time today. That’s both exciting and a little
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