Scrap Digital Tax, or no Free Trade Deal
The US will not negotiate a free trade deal with the UK unless a new digital services tax is dropped, according to a newspaper report – Source: Sky News The measure, which was proposed in 2018 by then chancellor Philip Hammond in response to fears that technology giants were not Continue Reading
Teresa May the Poison Challice
Teresa May, PM and previous Home Secretary resigns after failing to her second attempt at a EU withdrawal agreement past members of her Government and a Conservative Party that appeared to ‘bay for blood’ in their eagerness to see her go.
Lord Heywood ex-Cabinet Secretary recent death
Cabinet secretary Sir Mark Sedwill and Prime Minister Theresa May have led tributes from across government to Lord Heywood after it was announced that the former cabinet secretary and head of the civil service died yesterday. Heywood, who retired on 24 October following treatment for cancer, made an “an immense Continue Reading
The importance of the “Windrush Generation” to Britain
The Conservative government is facing a possible backlash and vote of no confidence from its voters in the coming elections over its treatment of migrants and their children who historically came to that Britain from the Caribbean in the 1940s and who later became to be known as the “Windrush Continue Reading
Una Cooze activist and secretary
This is Una Cooze, (b. 1929 – d. 2001) a woman I had the pleasure of meeting and working closely with when she helped me assist Ken Livingstone MP as my Constituency MP during 1991-1992 when his own secretary was on maternity leave. Una was the constituency secretary for Michael Continue Reading
Government backs Homelessness Reduction Bill
24 October 2016 2:48 pm | By Carl Brown courtesy : Inside Housing Journal) The government will support the Homelessness Reduction Bill, the communities secretary has announced.Sajid Javid, in parliament today, confirmed ministers will back the bill, which would impose duties on councils to prevent homelessness. Ministers had previously said Continue Reading
