Robert Largan
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Robert Largan
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Chartered Accountant. Former Equity Capital Markets Manager. Former MP for High Peak. Former Government Treasury Whip. Former lots of things…
Exclusive from @breeallegretti Angela Rayner has privately criticised the OBR and suggested that Labour has 'over-corrected' in the wake of the Tories In a private call with City investors organised by BNP Paribas she said that the official forecaster had failed to recognise the benefits of increased public spending Rayner attacked the scoring methodology used by the OBR, which measures the expected cost and growth gains of government policies to calculate the amount of fiscal headroom, based on the chancellor’s rules She said that the government's drive to build more social housing was considered a cost without any recognition of the social benefits She argued that the OBR is 'preventing' the government from greater public spending because it 'doesn't account for the returns' properly Expect this to be a growing fault line as the elections in May approach thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…
My James Bond take is that the only way to rescue the franchise is to completely reset it back to the early 1950s. Proper Cold War. Period aesthetics. Ends the plot dominance of technology. Avoids tedious contemporary fluff. Focus it back on proper plot-driven storytelling.
Experience the epic conclusion. Dune: Part Three only in theaters and IMAX December 18. #DuneMovie #FilmedforIMAX
This is @Tesco Ollerton. At the beginning of the week diesel was 150p, hiked up from the previous week. At lunchtime today it was 154p. This afternoon 156.9p. Its just one of many. So all power to @RachelReevesMP to stop this blatant profiteering.
40% of Britons haven’t read a book in the past year. The median is three. A civilisation that stops reading loses the capacity for judgement, for sustained thought. A country that doesn’t read, doesn’t think. It doesn’t know what it inherited, or why it matters. The rest follows.
Ed Davey suggests in the Commons that if the UK govt helps evacuate British expats who have moved to Dubai to avoid tax, they should lose their tax advantages.
Exclusive from @patrickkmaguire and our podcast The State of It Labour has accused the Greens of “whipping up hatred” among Muslim voters before this week’s pivotal by-election after they called for Sir Keir Starmer’s party to be “punished for Gaza” A cabinet minister said that the Greens are “hammering us” by “deliberately raising the salience of Gaza" Hannah Spencer, the Green candidate, has distributed leaflets in Gorton & Denton in Urdu, saying that voters should “make Labour pay” and accusing them of pushing “racist, dog whistle gutter policies” On the leaflet, she is wearing a keffiyeh, the Middle Eastern scarf commonly associated with Palestine On Monday, the party circulated a campaign video in Urdu accusing Matt Goodwin, the Reform UK candidate, of being someone who will “fuel the flames of Islamophobia” The video shows Starmer shaking hands with Narendra Modi, the Hindu nationalist prime minister of India, and also shows David Lammy, the deputy prime minister, shaking hands with Binyamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel. The video cuts to aerial footage of Gaza as Spencer, speaking in Urdu, says: “Politicians aren’t working for us.” The same video has been created and circulated in Bangla and is set to be recreated in Arabic and Pashto before the vote on Thursday A senior cabinet minister said: “The Greens are whipping up hatred and deliberately raising the salience of Gaza. They’re hammering us. They’re a totally different party to the one we thought they were. They’re just like Respect — it’s like fighting a by-election against George Galloway.” Lucy Powell, the deputy Labour leader, said: “Voters on Thursday have a straight choice between Labour or Reform, between unity or division. “The Green campaign is becoming increasingly desperate and has been characterised by misinformation with dodgy bar charts, selective quoting of academics and now a shameful attempt to manipulate the respected Muslim community. What do Greens say? “Voting Green let Reform win in Runcorn. Voters here are more alive to that threat every day … We will keep hammering the message that Labour is the only serious contender that will beat Reform.” A Green Party source said: “I speak Urdu, and I listened to the Urdu one and it’s actually beautifully translated. I highly recommend they listen to the messaging about cost of living and bringing communities together in the translation. And when the Greens talk about being inclusive, they really mean it. Unlike Labour, who only care about their ultra wealthy donors.” With @patrickkmaguire and @Gabriel_Pogrund open.spotify.com/episode/2KJaTX…
This sort of campaign is not the product of a healthy well integrated society.
Back when I was working in London during the early 2000s, Friday afternoons were a dangerous combination of trading and booze.
BREAKING: UK has infuriated President Trump by blocking US planes from using RAF bases for strikes on Iran as a ‘bargaining chip’ to force through Keir Starmer’s Chagos Surrender Deal (via @TheTimes) thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…
