The Conservatives want to brand Burnham’s administration as a ‘traditional tax and spend socialist government’
The UK should introduce a ban on almost all gambling advertising to protect public health, a cross-party group of peers has urged, prompting fury from the lobby group for bookmakers and casinos. Rob Davies has the story.
This is from Torsten Bell, a Treasury minister, on Kemi Badenoch’s attack on Paul Nowak getting a post as a non-executive director on the Bank of England’s court.
Two Conservative Chancellors appointed Frances O’Grady – then TUC general secretary – to two terms on the Court of the Bank in the recent past. As @rbrharrison the welcome appointment of @nowak_paul today has a LOT of precedents
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